Cookbook Author Myra Waldo
In researching newspaper food sections, I came across cookbook author and newspaper columnist Myra Waldo.
Here is a section from her obituary:
“Starting in the mid-1950’s, Ms. Waldo wrote more than two dozen travel guides and cookbooks, which she periodically updated. Her ”Serve at Once: The Soufflé Cookbook” of 1954, for instance, was revised as ”The Soufflé Cookbook” in 1961 and, reissued in 1990, remains in print. A book she wrote in 1955 with the actress Gertrude Berg, ”The Molly Goldberg Cookbook,” based on Ms. Berg’s famous television character, was reissued most recently in 1999.”
Here is a link to one of her syndicated food columns which ran in the Milwaukee Journal in 1969.
Here is a link to a profile that the Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church wrote about Waldo.
Here is a link to a review of one of Waldo’s cookbooks by the New York Times’ Craig Claiborne.
3 Comments
Kimberly Wilmot Voss
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Kimberly Wilmot Voss
Hi. I am including her in the book I am writing. I will let you know when it comes out.
Shari Holtzman
Hi,
My son happened to google Myra's name for a friend and came up with your article. She is our Aunt Myra and it was exciting to see the article that you wrote as well as one of her advertisements that we had not seen before! It is wonderful for us to know that she was viewed as such a well respected professional in her field. If you can tell us where to find more information on her and her work we would love the referral. It would be great to pass on this history of her to my kids and future generations!