Oct 23 2007
The New York Times reports that Peg Bracken, an advertising copywriter who nearly half a century ago parlayed her irreverent wit — and her passionate dislike of a traditional womanly duty — into a subversive best seller, The I Hate to Cook Book, died on Saturday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 89.
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