Great Advice from Cook Books
Langdon Auger
After getting tired of boxed macaroni and cheese, I decided it was time to invest in a cookbook. So I trudged on down to the used book store and broke the bank for a one dollar cookbook written in 1963. "The New Good housekeeping Cookbook," edited by Dorothy B. Marsh, provides a wonderful time capsule of late 1950s-early 1960s dining etiquette and gender attitudes.
Under the heading "Family Weight Watching" it lists a series of Do's and Dont's that I think speak for them selves.
"Don't give up in despair over teen-age food habits--those of the fashion conscious young ladies who starve themselves, or those of either gender who eat the wrong foods in between and at meals, with gay abandon. Be firm with youngsters in the first group; remind them they are preparing for marriage and motherhood. A girl who enjoys being a girl, who looks like a girl and not like a clothes pole, stands the best chance of having a whirl." p. 77
This is either the cause of or the solution to the Olsen Twin's problems, I can't decide which.
Enemies of food
-LA
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