I ended that 1st blog with a promised continuation of the story of her experience with being on The Phil Donahue Show, and here it is! The court ruled in his favor. The next day, 15,000 letters waited for us at the St. Clair post office. She is great and right on in duplicating many recipes. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter explain how they've kept their marriage a [Thank you] for your moral support and interest in my research and development of recipes that imitate restaurant and commercial food products. Phil Donahue was born on 21 December 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Such encounters have their flavor, but that comes from a willed confusion of fantasy and reality, of appearance and substance, reinforced by the ambience of the bar and smooth talk that is at once sincere and empty. The Power Of Black Unity ! We discussed the secrets of the food industry with listeners by phone from our homes. This week, however, I will be on tomorrow, instead of today same time. They can still be done safely, even amidst this pandemic and our crazy new norms. ONE OF MY FAVORITE radio visits, on a monthly basis (and sometimes more often than that) was with a Schenectady station [WGY]. We can go on and on. We were bogged down with an unexpected response. Back to Donohue. Mom wrote in her book, My Cup Runneth Over and I cant Find My Mop, about how her mom taught her certain cooking techniques; but, it was my Grandma Pitzer who, first, taught Mom how to make certain grocery products at home to save money (after she had married my dad and they were living with Dads parents for a short time). ], for whose listeners have become good friends over the many years of our radio visits with your wonderful audience[Thank you!] +44 (0)20 7611 2222info@wellcomecollection.org, Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Season Premiere May 5, 1980 12:00 AM 60 mins Guest: Sammy Davis Jr. 0% Lo, Thanks for the link to the 2008 article by Reza Fiyouzat. I felt that more than ever, when I collaborated with Mom to rewrite her favorite cookbook, Gloria Pitzers Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983), which consumed a couple years of my own life; let alone, the couple of years it took Mom to write the original version. She kept it in the oven of her wood-burning, porcelain enamel stove, where it was always warm. Guest: author Theodore I. Rubin ("Reconciliations"). Besides being a compulsive liar he thinks hes also a warlord and wants to rule the world. We outgrew that arrangement in a short time and rented a larger office uptown. Other than one full-time Administrative Assistant, who was also a family friend, it was just my parents, taking care of the day-to-day operations of their mail-order business, with a little help, now and then, from me and my siblings. But, every success Mom had in writing usually had something to do with food and home, rather than dramatic sagas and love stories. If youve ever seen 1 million letters, you know how we felt when we tried to handle the overwhelming response! Mr. Donahue says that corporate media doesnt rock the boat, it is the boat. More information about this video can be viewed below. It has also been told repeatedly by many reporters and talk show hosts over the decades, after she first fired up a lot of national attention, in the mid-1970s. But, now, they cant afford to give out the secrets that make their dishes special and unique. I laid my head on my desk many a time, in tears of anguish and fatigue. As always, I look forward to Mondays because they are my #52Chances per year, in which I have to share Memories of My Mom! His story, For Gloria Pitzer, Unlocking the Secrets of Fast-Food Recipes is Easy: Just Fake and Bake, appeared in People Weeklys May 7, 1990 issue, on pages 81-82; including a couple of Moms recipes and the two photos of Mom, below, by Susan L. Tusa, but not Secret RecipesTM exact contact information. (by Gloria Pitzer; from The Original 200 Plus Secret Recipes Book, 1st Printing, June 1997; p. 2). We were definitely not set up for that massive response! While the money did help that I cannot deny it was the anonymous angel cards, themselves, that meant the most to me. A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics. Its timely, prescient and applicable for circa Oct 2014. We'll be back. When I pack up a summer picnic for me and my husband, I like to use the same classics that Mom used to always make. Through all of the years that his show was on I was a faithful watcher and could always gain information and comfort from his calm, caring demeanor. I cant find it in me, today, to say, Happy Monday! as I usually do in my blog openings. Some people wrote threatening letters that they hadnt received their orders and were turning us over to the postmaster general as frauds! Everyone has worth; the excitement lies in the discovery of their value!Wealth does not equal worth and so the amount of money we could have earned, but turned down instead, as a result of keeping our publications at home, is not as important as the work itself. as found in her self-published book, My Cup Runneth Over And I Cant Find My Mop, 1st Edition, December 1989; p. 106. When I was doing a search on the term copycat recipes movement, both, Bing and Google brought me SO MANY results on copycat recipes! Transcript: Phil Donahue: When you see around the globe the maldistribution of wealth, the desperate plight of millions of people in underdeveloped countries, when you see so few haves and so many have-nots, when you see the greed and the concentration of power, did you ever . Phil Donahue says he believed he was blessed, living in the greatest country on earth - but through hosting his show, speaking to people like Noam Chomsky and the Black Panthers, he came to question what he had thought was true. The latter approach it as curious tourists in the land of Big Boys and Chicken in the Rough, tourists who keep their culinary passports in order so that they can get out at the drop of a hat. AlsoLou Emm [RIP] of WHIO-Radio, PM Magazine and their television crew in Detroit (at WJBK-Detroitas PM Magazine Detroit and PM Detroit) , [Thank you] for having created new interests in my recipes. Thanks, Tom, so glad you enjoyed it, too. The whole terrifying experience is like a gigantic sensory explosion. Ghastly, blinding, visually distorting, fragmenting, violent and numbing. Scheduled topic: black families relocating from cities to the suburbs. https://therecipedetective.com/category/blog/, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Hunting For Happiness - Secret Recipes, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Risky Business, Mondays & Memories of My Mom It All Starts Somewhere - Secret Recipes, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Making Mondays Memorable - Secret Recipes, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Resolution Declarations - Secret Recipes, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Celebrate Diversity - Secret Recipes, Mondays & Memories of My Mom Its all Relative, Sub-Titles: And Other Classified Information for Imitating Famous Food at Home! and Recipes Inspired by Restaurant Specialties, Recipes: 268 listed in the 3rd printing (Jan 1997), Original Price: $8.75, sold for $9.75 in Nov 2000. But then, we didnt know of many restaurants where 5 children, who hated green vegetables and spilled catsup on the tablecloths, were welcomed. Folders 1-11, 1-12, 1-13, 1-14, 3-5, 3-6 and 3-7 contain copies of materials from Presidential Libraries and the Library of Congress. NOTE: Thorne lived in Boston for a number of years, where he self-published a number of culinary pamphlets reviewed at the time by The New York Times, which in 1983 grew into his ongoing newsletter,Simple Cooking. And she succeeded at this beyond her wildest dreams sometimes to corporate fury and sometimes to its amused acquiescence. Please watch this interview with Cornel West: https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/black-prophetic-fire-cornel-west-on-the-revolutionary-legacy-of-leading-african-american-voices/. Remember Madison, Wisconsin, several years ago? Although they might be afraid to admit this, even to themselves, what would most excite them would be to learn how to make the food they most loved to eat: the fast food they bought at McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken and the brand-name treats they brought home from the supermarket, stuff like Oreo cookies and Hostess Snowballs. Yet, I cant find any type of written history on the subject of the copycat recipes movement nor, in any other similar terms yet, theres no denying that the movement exists and, I think, its becoming a billion dollar industry! We already had more work than we could handle, and I had found that television appearances were merely food demonstrations that I did not enjoy experiencing. Scheduled topic: some black women's expectations of black men. We were bogged down with an unexpected response. Soon, I found that we had to put the [office] back into our home. Again, the Liar-In-Chief was silent. (And believe me, weve heard from all the big ones!). Youve been a great friend over the years! As a swimmer, growing up in our beautiful Great Lakes state of Michigan, Mom knew she couldnt successfully swim against the current; so, she learned to swim with it. Its almost incredible that what started out to be merely the frosting on the cake, of my monthly newsletter, soon became the whole cake! There is eating where the mouth is inquisitive, aggressive, alert, and appreciative because it genuinely wants to get to know what it is devouring. | Send Feedback or Report a Problem, Collection 074 Ephemera of The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (CN 074). As she puts if forthrightly: I do not know, nor do I WANT to know what these companies put into their recipes. What she wants to replicate is less it than the experience of eating it. Then my parents needed to bring in a lot of extra help. What is it that you believe in Obama? You guys rock! There Really is a Colonel Sanders (no date available circa 1970s)]. Last week, I shared Moms experiences and memories from the first time she appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, in July 1981. Some people did not include their self-addressed-stamped envelope. Most of the letters requested a sheet of free recipes that were included with the order blank [in exchange] for a self-addressed stamped envelope The offer would have been good for us, if it had only been shown that one time the day on which we appeared on the show but for nearly a year afterward, the requests still came, as did the complaints and the threats to report us to postal authorities for not having sent those free recipes, tore us apart emotionally and physically! Quickly gather it into a ball and pat it out to cover the bottom and sides of a Pam-sprayed, 10-inch, Pyrex pie plate. I cant believe its July already! But a person should also be grown-up enough and have the courage to speak up when it sees that things are going wrong. (Note: Dipping spoon into cold water keeps the dough from sticking.) Similar to the development of life, creating and producing something can be a stressful AND beautiful AND rewarding time all rolled into one! Additionally, when I searched a similar term like secret restaurant recipes which is the title of Moms self-published cookbook from 1976 (first edition, also known as Book 1 in a series of 6) that I believe really kick-started the movement, in the first place; following Moms initial publishings of copycat recipes from famous restaurant dishes to fast food, junk food and grocery products Moms cookbook didnt come up until #183 of more than 1,000 results (once again, sorted by Featured). TRANSCRIPT: This is a rush transcript. How does the Recipe Detective go about deducing the secrets of these patent formulas? on the Internet. Corporate Media is Destroying Democracy Phil Donahue on Reality Asserts Itself (2/3). Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more. We said no to People magazine. Basically, the email tried to point out that writing and publishing are only minor steps in the whole book process compared to marketing; which, it proclaimed, is an authors biggest challenge because it involves so much more personal time and effort. I was introduced to my hero, Ralph Nader. It was also in the conversation with the Colonel that I was urged not to sell my business as long, he told me, as I had the energy and the aptitude to run it myself. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Scheduled program topic: teenage girls and gangs. Phil Donahue, in full Phillip John Donahue, (born December 21, 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), American journalist and television personality who pioneered the daytime issue-oriented TV talk show. I find it astounding, the number of foodiecopycatswho (since Mom introduced her first copycat cookbook, called Secret Restaurant Recipes, in 1976) have copied the ORIGINAL COPYCAT and all the subsequent copycats that have followed henceforth. Sad to say, as I searched for links to some of the names below, I found that many of them, like Mom, have passed on as well. In Canada they were actually quite advanced in their coverage of live parliamentary procedures in the late eighties, but youd never know it given the abject shambles that is currently palmed off as pursuing national interests. Its a joke. Our phone bill had been buried in some of that mail and in a months time, being something like 23 to 24 days behind in opening the mail, our phone was shut off for non-payment of our bill. Then, factor in that Im OCD so that, alone, at least doubles the time it takes me to write (and rewrite and rewrite again) my thoughts and ideas, trying to put them in a CDO order as my kids and husband would always tease me about being OCD, because I like things in alphabetical (and numerical) order. So, Paul and our 2 sons remodeled our two-car garage, attached to the kitchen, and we moved the operation back there; where, for the next 4 years, the business ran quite smoothly. I am a 68 year old grandma who had the same enlightenment regarding politics as he has and almost completely agree with him. Here, suddenly, reality was replicating fantasy, her fantasy. We did not want another 1 million letters [like we received after the Donahue show] and surely that would be inevitable, considering their circulation. In fact, I have my own staticky VHS tape of it, as well! Although we cant right now because of Covid-19 restrictions were looking forward to a great day trip there in the future. Phil Donohue is a giant among men. Though, he is 6 0.047 in feet and inches and 183 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 187.393 lbs in Pound and 85kg in Kilograms. So, on July 6, Paul and I flew to Chicago, staying at the Hyatt OHare, and did the Donahue show live for an entire hour on July 7, flying back that same afternoon. Back to the Donahue show, he really did have on guests for an entire hour discussing issues of the day. But it is, and it works at least for a time. I get anxiety just from the idea of interviews! Now that Moms last cookbooks royalties are mine, I need to learn how to promote it, myself, (since Im not rich enough to pay someone else to do it, as in the solicitation I received in my email). Obamas the Sanctions Czar too! It opened many doors that would have otherwise been closed in her field, allowing her to let her light shine; and inspiring her light to keep shining. I was also tangling with Jove Publications, who were pressing hard to sell their Junk Food Cookbook, using my recipes, word-for-word, with credit going to somebody else. RT is first rate. Talk 2 Taalik in Person @ ( 314 ) 828-7354. The show touched on the serious social and political issues of the day and was the . HISTORY BOOKS have said little of the one person who really put the state of Kentucky on the map, namely the gentleman whom will always be associated with finger-lickin-good fried chicken, Harland Sanders. All of us soon realized we were mistaken about what we thought we wanted/needed and how to go about getting it. Such food doesnt ask to be tasted; it compels the mouth to submit. Season 1. It was July 7, 1981 when Mom FIRST appeared on The Phil Donahue Show. As the great George Seldes said: Never Tire of Protesting, (for the right things, of course). She seasoned it with shortening lard, mostly. Obama was silent on the right-wing coup in Honduras,as well as the neo-fascist/neo-nazi coup in Kiev, Ukraine earlier this year. Note: Do not double this recipe. I just dont think they have all that much influence on anyones decision to buy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Please note that CSHL holds copyright in writings by Watson that are held within Watson's archive in the CSHL Library and Archives, but does not hold copyright in Watson's writings held outside the CSHL Library and Archives. Plus, a write up in Playboy Magazine [and] Home Cooking. The peace and contentment she sought, but couldnt find there, made her suddenly re-appreciate the freedom she had of living in a small, mid-west town, and she was eager to go home. I had to decline. Theres a lot of great information (brain food) to be found about Memorial Day at History.com! Story Transcript. Whats best to me may not be the same as whats best to you or to anyone else. Scheduled: Australian male exotic dancers. John Wayne appears on a 1976 episode of Donahue in front of an audience largely populated by women, and he discusses his life, his career, his stint as a sin. Phil Donahue on the first episode of "The Phil Donahue Show" -EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG - YouTube 0:00 / 3:44 Phil Donahue on the first episode of "The Phil Donahue Show" -EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG. Coppertime, I definitely agree with dandelionsalad on his assessment of Obama. 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