I’d like to share some beautiful photographs of one of my dishes, which a ‘friend in the kitchen’ produced for me. The recipe is “Pepper Steak, Ranch Style” from Entertaining Snacks After Dark. That was a particularly fabulous cookbook to pull together because of the late-night theme, and I love the profile of the fabulous […]
Lunch Hour NYC @ NYPL
It’s been a while, but I am GLAD to be back in the swing of things. While on hiatus, I was thrilled to learn from my friend Wendy, that my book, Ancestral Recipes of Shin Mei Lon was included in the New York Public Library exhibit of “Lunch Hour NYC.” The exhibit was co-curated by […]
A New Life for HAVE COOKBOOK WILL MARRY
Little did I know in 1957 when I wrote Have Cookbook Will Marry that 55 years hence the audience for this book would double from its original focus, the bride-to-be. Today’s marriages come in many varieties, and a marital partnership no longer needs to include a traditional 50s bride at all, but two domestic partners […]
Producing Cookbooks: The Old-Fashioned Way

When my husband and I decided to start manufacturing our Handy Aid Cookbooks we realized quickly that the most cost-efficient way to do so was to do them ourselves. I did all the recipe developing and writing in my apartment. But the books had to be printed on huge sheets of plastic-coated stock and then […]
RESOURCEFUL: The 1950s Way

Getting ever-increasing orders from bookstores and department stories for our Handy Aid books was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me. We had a business. People were actually buying what we were creating, and in big numbers. Every entrepreneur knows the feeling: your baby is growing. But this is a baby […]