The I HATE TO COOK Book – Giveaway & Review

Fifty years ago, Peg Bracken wrote THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK – and helped change women’s lives forever. At that time her message was a revolutionary one for housewives: You don’t need to spend all day in the kitchen to host parties or feed your family. Cooking can be easy and, more important, it’s okay if you’d rather be doing something else!

Now this updated and revised edition introduces Peg’s delicious recipes – along with her wry sense of humor – to a whole new generation of women. While we’re no longer expected to slave away in the kitchen, more than ever, women (and men!) still need meals that taste like great home cooking and can be prepared with minimal effort. Peg’s mouthwatering recipes are quick and easy – and many dishes, like her “Stayabed Stew,” can be popped into the oven and ignored for an hour or so while you take a nap. Best of all, they all come salted with Peg’s side-splitting and timeless humor.

Updated for today’s pantries and with a touching foreward from Peg’s daughter Jo, THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK is sure to fill your kitchen with wonderful smells and even more wonderful laughter – whether you hate to cook or not!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Peg Bracken spent her life writing when she could, cooking when she had to, and seeing the world as only she could see it. In her passing, she leaves behind nine books, a multitude of articles, columns, pieces of light verse, and a family whom she loved…and who loved her.

Johanna Bracken is a retired entrepreneur who devotes considerable time and resources to various charities, including working with incarcerated men and women, supporting primate sanctuaries, and of her local chapter of the American Red Cross. She and her husband live in Long Beach, California, with their growing brood of dogs and cats.

FROM THE BOOK FAERY REVIEWS…Never have I read a cookbook beginning to end. Who does that? Normally we just read the recipes that caught our eye in the table of contents. However, this cookbook was actually rather entertaining! Not only did it contain some easy recipes that could be thrown together (in many cases, literally), but the writing in between the recipes had me grinning and at some times laughing.  The only thing I wish was different was that it was spiral bound to make keeping open a page easier. Otherwise, this one’s a keeper for my cookbook shelves.