[Sca-cooks] OOP: Another passing
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Mon Jul 26 20:16:25 PDT 2004
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
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