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.
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.
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.
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.
tombstone long people
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.