There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today… — Peg Bracken Copy Share
many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason,… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
