Secret Recipes
INTRODUCTION In the 1960s and 1970s, Mom designed a few different editorial columns, satirically geared toward working homemakers like herself (or those who just want to laugh at life), mailing out samples to over 300 newspapers. Within a year, she was steadily writing two different columns (“No Laughing Matter” and “Minding the Hearth”) for 60 […]
Happy September. It’s National Potato Month. In honor, here’s Mom’s secret for making… #NationalPotatoMonth POTATO (or ERASER) STAMPS, HOMEMADE By Gloria Pitzer [circa 1970s] When Mom began “the family enterprise” in the early 1970s, she designed her own stamps, with which to decorate the covers and pages of her self-published books. She used different colored […]