Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
christmas xmas time-and-love
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
hate feet cooking
You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
long illusion practicals
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
learning experience way
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
finding-yourself one-day may
You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.
food comforting forgotten
There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.
want
When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
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.
travel sex life-is
one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...
rocks eggs fire
The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.
drinking drunk getting-drunk
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
old-lady
... you're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ...
vacation forever littles
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.