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Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

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This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild — when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

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Peg Bracken

Peg Bracken

Born: February 25, 1918
Died: October 20, 2007 (aged 89)
Bio: Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken was an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel.
Known for:
  1. The I hate to cook book (1960)
  2. The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book (1986)
  3. On getting old for the first time (1996)
  4. The I Hate to Housekeep Book (1962)
  5. I Didn't Come Here to Argue (1969)
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