Abour Maion Cunningham Cookbook Author

 During World War II, years before she became a famous cookbook author, she worked at a Walnut Creek service station while her husband served as a Marine. She changed oil and reset spark plugs, with designs on buying her own station, but when her husband returned and complained that she always smelled like “40-weight oil,” she let that dream go. Instead, she developed crushing paranoia and agoraphobia, and, along with her medical malpractice lawyer husband, a serious drinking problem, keeping a small bottle of gin in her pocketbook—an unfortunate family tradition, as her own father was an alcoholic with a rage problem.

The food writer Kim Severson, in her book Spoon Fed, alluded to “terrible things” at home. Whatever pain Cunningham endured or her own sins, she kept them mostly to herself, dropping a hint on occasion. “He doesn’t like homemade bread and he doesn’t like vegetables,” she once said of her husband, Robert, whom she’d met in kindergarten. “The only green thing he says he likes is money.”

Cunningham was a depressed, hypochondriac, alcoholic housewife well into her forties. But in America, in a correct reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald, redemption is always around the corner.

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