Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
drinking drunk getting-drunk
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
coffee home drunk
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
alive cocktail entire evening fact glad good party people proving spend
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.
experts realizing
It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.
wise travel return
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
years self quitting
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
restaurants copies cooks
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
attitude believe knees
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.
party people alive
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.
names giving age
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
smell pie kitchen
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.
humor people arson
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.
doe made
a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.
food competition television
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.