Like Joan of Arc, Peg Bracken was a sister who really cooked. And 2 1/2 years after her death, the reputation of the author of the 1960 mega-bestseller “The I Hate to Cook Book” is still rising. But not just in the culinary world. Bracken, who was born in Filer 92 years ago, is hailed as a groundbreaking feminist. “Although Peg Bracken did not suggest that husbands take over the family meals, she certainly did not urge women to ‘be pretty, be cheerful and be a good cook,’” wrote Jessamyn Neuhaus in “Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking,” a history of gender and cooking in America. “Indeed, she satirized and openly scoffed at that ideal, perpetuated in other cookbooks.” Bracken had little patience with the elaborate cookbooks/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: Do you hate to cook?