![]() ![]() Personal note: This is neither poetry nor technically a story. But my initial exposure to it was in an unforgettable oral presentation, and oral presentation is what this section of the website is really all about. In 1969 the Betty Crocker Cookbook's First Edition was published. It was a loose-leaf binder of recipes presented in sections separated by dividers. Each section was devoted to a particular category of food and had a brief introduction. ![]() Betty Crocker Cookbook 1969 First EditionXiangsun Zhang. These introductory pieces, presented below, might be seen as a bit of cultural-anthropological history, a window on a past in which 'a woman's job is to please her man.' The experience mentioned above was a practice performance by Anna Rose Keefe, a member of our local high school's 2009 speech team, which went on to win the statewide speech competition. Several years earlier, the team's coach, Marjory Rusakoff, had been cooking dinner, listening her daughter read aloud the cookbook's section introductions.
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