[Sca-cooks] OOP: Another passing

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Susan Fox-Davis:
>On 7/26/04 3:03 PM, "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
><adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>  No info on the WCBS 880 AM (the New York City affiliate and "mother
>>  ship") website, and the promotional cookbook they published for her
>>  (88 Recipes From Myra Waldo) is, naturally undated.
>
>Poot.  I take it you have a copy.  What is in it?  Probably nothing really
>radically unique, stuff from her extent books.  But I'm still a geeky
>collector and am interested.

10 or 11 bucks via bookfinder.com . I don't have a copy ;-). Sorry.

>
>>  However, the NYPL catalogue lists publication dates for her books as
>>  ranging between 1954 and, I believe, 1979, and that probably reflects
>>  her national prominence as a radio personality, to some extent.
>
>I think we decided to say "The 1960's".  Close enough.  She was still a
>member of AFTRA I believe.  And still cooking;  she brought home made
>gefilte fish to our family's seder this year, and wow was it ever entirely
>different from the stuff we all usually get in jars.  Yum!
>
>>  I'd be amazed to find that such info isn't readily available from the
>>  LA Times, though.
>
>Thing is, my mom is =writing= the obit for the LA Times, possibly even as we
>speak.  The Times finally came up with dates, turned out to be the early
>'80's, after she had moved west but just before they had started archiving
>on computer.  Sigh.  This is =not= a good year for major cookery writers,
>Alan Davidson having passed away in March.  I guess that means that WE will
>have to start writing, or write MORE books to fill in that void in the
>world, right gang?

You know that sound Lurch used to make? "Uhhhhrhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Adamantius