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INDEX
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Adamic, Louis, 95–96
Adams, Clover, 103
Adams, Henry, 103
Allure, 253
American food, 5, 121
Hibben and, 121–22
Lewis and, 74–75
salads, 119–20
Amis, Kingsley, 207
Anglo-Catholic, The (Leslie), 85
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 208
Antonescu, Ion, 156
Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy, The (Glasse), 35
Asbell, Bernard, 124
Austen, Jane, 179, 185
Ball, Lucille, 230
Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt, 67
Barr, Candy, 221–22
Barr, Roseanne, 246
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 182
BBC, 209
Beeton, Isabella, 50–51
Berghof, 136–37, 141, 144–52, 154, 164, 166, 167, 170
Berkeley Hotel, 89
Betjeman, John, 179
biography, 4–5
culinary, 4, 16, 258
black pudding, 35–37
Dorothy Wordsworth’s eating of, 3, 15, 16, 34–35, 37, 38
recipe for, 35–36
Board, Evelyn, 193
Book of Mediterranean Food, A (David), 174, 189–90
Boomer, Lucius, 96
Bormann, Martin, 144, 146
Bracken, Peg, 230–31
Braun, Eva, 7, 13, 131–72, 133
at the Berghof, 136–37, 141, 144–48, 164
champagne drunk by, 132, 158–59, 170
clothes of, 145, 164–66, 168, 170
diaries of, 139, 142–43
food and, 10–11, 132, 134, 136–38, 145, 157–58
in Hitler’s bunker, 132–34, 168–71
Hitler’s relationship with, 10, 11, 132, 136–45, 158, 164–68
indifference to world events and politics, 165–67
last letters of, 169–70
marriage of, 170
photography and, 138–39, 165–66
slender figure of, 136–38, 157, 164
Speer and, 131–34, 136, 158, 168, 169
suicide of, 134, 165, 169, 171
suicide attempts of, 143–44
Braun, Franziska, 139–41, 155
Braun, Fritz, 139–41
Braun, Gretl, 142, 145, 170
Braun, Ilse, 141–45, 167–68
Breakfast Book, The (Hill), 37
Bright Young Things, 84, 86–88
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 1
British food, 67–69, 73–74, 177, 194–95, 210
Child and, 173–74, 177, 200
Pym and, 174–78, 197, 209–11
in restaurants, 199–203
salads, 189–90
Brown, David, 12, 214, 216–30, 232, 233, 235, 238, 240, 241
Cosmopolitan and, 236
Sex and the Single Girl and, 228–29, 232
television show proposals and, 233–35
Brown, Helen Gurley, 7, 9, 12, 13, 213–55, 215
career and identity of, 224–25, 227–29, 249
as Cosmopolitan editor, 12, 213, 216, 224, 225, 235–44, 248–49, 251–54
Cosmopolitan’s first issue, 237
death of, 253
dieting and thinness and, 12, 217–18, 221–23, 229, 239–47, 255
feminism and, 225, 227, 253–55
finances and, 226–28, 240
food and cooking and, 12, 216–18, 221, 223, 225–26, 229–32, 234–35, 239–45, 247–52
Helen Gurley Brown’s Single Girl’s Cookbook, 248–52
hot buttered rum recipe of, 245
I’m Wild Again, 213
The Late Show, 246
Sex and the Office, 215, 248
Sex and the Single Girl, 214–17, 220–24, 228–33, 235, 237–40, 245, 247, 248
television show proposals of, 233–35
The Writer’s Rules, 213
writing style of, 213–14, 238–39, 249, 251–52
Bryan, Joseph, III, 85
Buck, Pearl, 110–11
Campbell, Lady Colin, 64, 66, 67
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 58, 59
Camp David, 125
Cannon, Dyan, 243
Cape, Jonathan, 178, 203–4, 209
Carlton, 62, 69
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 107
Cavendish Hotel, 46, 49, 55–56, 61, 70, 72, 75, 77, 80–89
caviar, 152
Cecil, David, 208, 209
chafing dishes, 98–99
champagne, 84, 95, 158–59
Nazis and, 132, 158–63, 172
Chicago Tribune, 252
Child, Julia, 128, 173–74, 176, 177, 200, 230
Child, Paul, 173
Christian, Gerda, 169
Churchill, Lady Randolph, 53, 58, 59, 61, 74
Churchill, Randolph, 59
Churchill, Winston, 53, 59, 96
Cold Table, The (Simpson), 178
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 25, 26, 37, 41
concentration camps, 135, 171
Cook, Blanche Wiesen, 103, 107, 115, 126
Cooking of India, The (Time-Life), 264–65
Cornell University, 108, 110–14, 129
Cornwallis-West, George, 59
Cosmopolitan, 12, 213, 216, 224, 225, 235–44, 248–49, 251–54
Helen Gurley Brown’s first issue of, 237
Country Life, 153
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer (Claiborne), 252
Crocker, Betty, 230
Daily Mail, 79, 90, 154
Daily Mirror, 186
Daily Sketch, 46, 74
Daily Telegraph, 57
David, Elizabeth, 174, 189, 194, 210
Davis, Adelle, 243
Dawson, Mary, 34–36
Deems, Richard, 236
Delano, Laura, 125
Democratic Party, 105, 110
Depression, Great, 10, 95, 111, 113, 117
De Quincey, Thomas, 16
DeVoto, Avis, 173
dinner parties, 64–68, 192
Dinners and Diners (Newnham-Davis), 77
Domina, Evdokia, 171–72
Donne, John, 212
Dove Cottage, 3, 16, 19, 20, 23, 29–31, 33, 37
Drabble, Margaret, 179–80, 207
Duchess of Duke Street, The,
47, 57
Dylan, Bob, 208
Edward VII, King, 55, 66–67, 75–78, 83
Lewis and, 46, 47, 53, 55–57, 72, 75–77, 79
Elgar, Edward, 76
Eliot, George, 10
Eliot, T. S., 214
English food, see British food
Entrup, Marguerite, 128–29
Ephron, Nora, 238–39
Escoffier, Auguste, 47, 69–71, 76, 77, 80, 230, 231
Lewis and, 71
Esquire, 245
Etiquette of Good Society, The (Campbell), 64
Evans, Ernestine, 120–21
Exner, Marlene von, 156
Farley, Elizabeth, 94–95
Farmer, Fannie, 230
feminism, 224–25, 259
Eleanor Roosevelt and, 106–9
Helen Gurley Brown and, 225, 227, 253–55
women’s suffrage, 106
Ferris, Barbara, 243
Feuersenger, Marianne, 162–63
Field, Rachel, 97–98
Fielding, Daphne, 52, 84, 87
Fitz-Gerald, George, 153
FitzGibbon, Theodora, 85, 87
Flanner, Janet, 137, 160, 161
Flannery, Harry, 160
Food and Cookery, 75
Forster, E. M., 207
Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, 151
Francatelli, Charles Elmé, 69
France:
cuisine of, 68–69, 72–74, 127–28, 173–74
Nazi occupation of, 160–61
French toast, 5
Fromm, Bella, 159–60
Fuller, Bonnie, 253
Gardner, George Peabody, 88
Gardner, Isabella, 88–89
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 88
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 185
Geis, Bernard, 232, 247–48, 252
Gellhorn, Martha, 94
gingerbread, 19, 23, 30
Gittings, Robert, 32
Glasse, Hannah, 35
Glyn, Elinor, 83
Goebbels, Joseph, 163
Good Earth, The (Buck), 110
Good Food Club, 201
Good Food Guide, 201–3, 209–10
Gore, Tipper, 246
Göring, Hermann, 135, 159, 160, 168
Gornick, Vivian, 253–54
Gourmet Cookbook, The, 232
Gourmet’s Guide to Europe, The (Newnham-Davis), 77
Gourmet’s Guide to London, The (Newnham-Davis), 77, 79–80
Graham, Martha, 233
Graham Kerr Cookbook, The (Kerr), 252
Grasmere, 18, 19, 29, 31, 38
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