This took me six weeks to read...not because it was boring, but because it was so dense with information and the print was pretty small for my old eyes. There was no large print edition available.

I loved reading these letters, a peek into life and cooking/food in the 50s. I probably would have given it 5 stars except that there was too much political preaching that got quite tiresome after reading the same thing ten times. Since these letters were edited, some of this stuff should have been left out. I can only think that Reardon WANTED that political stuff to be in the readers' faces. The sheer volume of the political comments by both women really detracted from the book, in my opinion. The odd thing is that they were so anti-Republican/pro Democrat, yet both were fairly elitist.

I did like all the food talk, the speculation about new cooking equipment, and also the difference between what was available in Europe versus the U.S and between then and now.