Peg Bracken was the author of a bestselling cookbook that I really have to find a copy of, The I Hate To Cook Book. She was one of the first to suggest (late 50s, early 60s) that busy housewives use store bought items and other shortcuts in their meal making. She was a former advertising executive who went on to write other books, including I Hate To Housekeep Book, other cookbooks, and the memoir A Window Over The Kitchen Sink.
She died of pulmonary fibrosis in Portland, OR.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-26-2007 @ 6:37PM
Kiwi Carlisle said...
I beg to differ with the concept that
Peg Bracken was the first to suggest that housewives use packaged foods in recipes. Irma Rombauer was suggesting that in the Joy of Cooking in the early 50s, maybe even earlier.
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10-26-2007 @ 7:11PM
Allison said...
Besides Adelle Davis's "Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit," Peg Bracken and her LOL cookbook were my constant companions in the kitchen as a new bride in the early '60s. Bracken gave me a whole new, wholesome and most important, liberated, outlook on cooking that freed me from a-recipe-is-a-chemical-formula which must never be deviated from. She'd say things like: "If you don't like this ingredient, leave it out," quickly followed by "pour a glass of wine and enjoy for 45 minutes until this casserole gets as ready as you want it to be."
What more could I have asked for: good food, a glass of wine, and hearty chuckles. Hope she and Julia are having a great time together at that big table in the sky.
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10-26-2007 @ 11:06PM
theQueenZ said...
Kiwi, please read carefully. "She was one of the first...". Peg Bracken might (?) have suggested it first in a "real" cookbook but that was a big intimidating tomb, at least it was to me and I've been cooking since I was able to reach the top of the old wood cooking stove. The I Hate To Cook book was a nice little paperback that gave people confidence in themselves that they could get into the kitchen and cook too. As a pretty good cook I still read my copy from time to time.
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10-27-2007 @ 1:06AM
AS said...
Oh Bummer. I was late to the Peg Bracken party (only two or so years ago), but I loved her outlook tremendously. Godspeed, Ms. Bracken.
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10-27-2007 @ 7:16PM
Mary said...
Peg Bracken was terrific! Does anyone have her recipe for Hellzapoppin' Cheese Rice?
Thanks in advance,
Mary
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10-28-2007 @ 10:01PM
Richard said...
"Peg Bracken was the author of a bestselling cookbook that I really have to find a copy of..."
Several of the books are available here:
http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-I-Hate-Cook-Book/dp/0883657945/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7384875-3694420?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193623129&sr=1-1
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1-19-2008 @ 10:42PM
theQueenZ said...
OOPS, "Peg Bracken might (?) have suggested it first in a "real" cookbook" should have been been Irma Rombauer. Where is the edit option?
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