FINDING BETTY CROCKER

Shout out: The first book D sold as a literary agent, Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food, by Susan Marks, has been published by Simon and Schuster and I’ve seen favorable reviews in Library Journal and Entertainment Weekly. I’ve got my very own copy, thanks to E of St. Paul, and started reading it this morning. I’d probably have enjoyed it even if there wasn’t a personal connection, since it touches upon my loves of food books, early-twentieth-century social history, women’s history, and advertising/propaganda (not to mention the MN angle—did you know WCCO was started by the Washburn Crosby Company, which created Betty Crocker and became General Mills?), but how cool was it to look at the acknowledgments page and see D’s name right there? So cool. Way to go, D! Buy the book, everyone.