Old Books, a New "Naked Gun," and Two Mild Rants

Happy Tuesday!

As you may recall, Heather recently went to Florida to help her Mom with a decluttering project, and she came home with some items to help me with a cluttering project: five vintage cookbooks for my collection. I thought it might be fun to share them with you, and ask Broads Nation which I ought to examine in greater detail next.

First up, Come for Cocktails, Stay for Supper, by Marian Burros and Lois Levine:

I was particularly entertained by the blurb on the back from The New York Times Book Review, noting this was aimed at the “less affluent and sophisticated hostess,” which seems like a burn in a vacuum and really seems snotty when you know that Marian Burros worked for the NYT for YEARS and, in fact, wrote one of the cooking section’s most popular and arguably most famous recipes. She also has an Emmy! She and Levine wrote a bunch of cookbooks together — that plum torte originated with Lois! — and frankly, yes, I’d be happy to stay for supper. Especially since, judging from some of …