With the tests for COUNTERFEITING FRIED CHICKEN AT HOME that was as good as what you could buy out but for less I felt I HAD to have a pressure fryer. The next day, 15,000 letters waited for us at the St. Clair post office. We sent out hundreds of thousands of Moms free recipes and product-ordering information sheets, in exchange for the self-addressed stamped envelopes that came in, per the offer that aired on that Donahue episode. We knew that making a lot of money in a big hurry was not what we wanted, even though it might have been what others thought we should have done. Again, the Liar-In-Chief was silent. But the books became more successful than we anticipated, and the newsletter circulation was growing to over 10,000. I love it and I think Phil Donahue is my long lost soul brother!! 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. Pauls 82-year-old aunt claimed why the chicken always came out just right every time she made it which was religiously every Sunday it was the pan! Add flour and beat vigorously until smooth and moist. Education He was raised in a catholic family, and hence he attended st Edward high school. Gloria Pitzer (1982), Jim White [RIP], Ann Keefe [RIP] & Art Fleming [RIP] of KMOX-Radio, St. Louis, MO , [Thank you] for all the great years we visited on the air, sharing secrets of some giants in the food industry with your nationwide audience. Its so bad that I leave the room and wait outside. URL: More at The Real News. In last weeks blog, More than 15 Minutes of Fame, I shared her Big Bucket In the Sky Chicken recipe, which was also on the free sheet. As such, the real reason we observe this holiday and the old traditions that were once practiced in honor of it have become lost. What is it that you believe in Obama? For instance, Helen Witty and Elizabeth Schneider Colchie, in their award-winning Better than Store Bought, eschewed brand-name replication entirely, teaching their readers instead to make corn chips or tomato catsup in a healthier and more economical fashion. That gave my husband, Paul, some relief from his skepticism that I would eventually outgrow my obsession with writing From Bob Allisons listeners alone, Paul and I had received over 1,000 letters in one day! To prove his point, he told me, in court, he prepared his chicken the right way and passed it out to the jury, the judge and the court along with the bucket of chicken purchased down the street from a KFC unit. Back to search James D. Watson Collection Phil Donahue Show Transcripts JDW/2/8/2/12 Phil Donahue Show Transcripts Date: 1981-1982 Reference: JDW/2/8/2/12 Use the spoon to patch any holes in the dough. Angels were our connection. Thus, Im still feeling inspired to take up the challenge to write Moms biography, including a history of the copycat recipes movement. It was a confusing mess! Scheduled topic: teenagers and the New York club scene. 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/. Gloria Pitzers Cookbook The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 68). Although, when my parents used to travel (especially with their Good Sam friends), Mom would sometimes find a way to fit in a live, in studio radio visit whenever she could. [However,] we outgrew that arrangement in a short time and rented a larger office uptown. Angelsnupnup7@aol.com. Jack McCarthys TV interview with us on Christmas Eve [1976] for [Friday Feast on] Channel 7, in Detroit, was one of the highlights of our experiences. Some people did not include their self-addressed-stamped envelope. Topic: battered wives who have killed their husbands. 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). Totally let down the youth of the US who also voted him in. Since I began these blogs to honor Moms legacy, Ive been hearing more and more from people, through social media and emails, who remember her expressing their own fond memories of Mom. Lift off plate and peel back waxed paper. Mom found out, through friends of mine, where I was living and how I was struggling. We were receiving about 1,000 letters a day from the radio shows that I took part in and the newspaper stories that I was more-or-less an acting consultant on subjects related to fast food. It was truly an overwhelming response that none of us ever expected. All of us can, and should, bring any one of these things (or all of them) to fruition, in observance of Memorial Day. ], for whose listeners have become good friends over the many years of our radio visits with your wonderful audience[Thank you!] Phil Donahue met his second wife, Marlo . Plus, she thought, if she wanted more and her recipe column readers wanted more and her increasing, radio fan base wanted more; then maybe she should just create it and publish it herself! 176KB PDF File. 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! But then, we didnt know of many restaurants where 5 children, who hated green vegetables and spilled catsup on the tablecloths, were welcomed. Dr. Ira Mintz of the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center discusses treatment of sex offenders. So, to copy a forty-eight-ounce jar of Hellmans mayonnaise, she blends the expected ingredients oil, eggs, lemon juice, vinegar, salt with some that you might not expect three-quarters of a cup each of sugar and evaporated milk and two sticks of margarine. He had just sold that business to the Heublein liquor and food conglomerate, for around $2 million and it was (quote) the dumbest thing I ever did do! He complained that the gravy tasted like wallpaper paste and the chicken was dry as cardboard and that his recipe and technique had been so terribly altered that he was sick about it. Gloria Pitzer (May 1982) [*NOTE: That thrill continued to remain with Mom, for many more decades, until she passed away in January 2018.]. The family was falling apart. He has always been a fraud, charlatan, whatever, as a politician, and history will (and already has) proven he might be the worse president to date. Long story, short newspaper advertisers kicked up a fuss editor strongly suggested Mom go back to hum-drum brownie recipes Mom quit and started her own publication, giving the public what they wanted; as she discovered from their requests, because there wasnt any other source (at that time) from which to feed the ever-growing hunger for recipe secrets to imitate famous restaurant dishes, fast food, junk food and grocery products at home. Our home, which was both our office and our sanctuary, became like a factory, with people helping us to process the mail, eventually having to return thousands of the orders to the customers with our deepest regrets that we could not, in all fairness to them, delay their order. 00:18:08 - How often do you get to talk to a former President and First Lady about love? I had that chance and I am so glad for it. I miss all the German culture experience that this small tourist town has to offer! Scheduled program topic: teenage girls and gangs. Even Mom often stated, in her own cookbooks, that she could frequently come up with the same result by using different ingredients; as she often revamped her make-alike recipes to compensate for such things as ingredients that were no longer available, which prompted Moms homemade grocery recipes and subsequent cookbook. Dream Whip has so far managed to stymie her, but that probably wont for long. The Radicalization of Phil Donahue Reality Asserts Itself (1/3). The problem was not Donahue's ratings, but . Here is Moms favorite recipe experience from that show, as it appears in her last book, Gloria Pitzers Cookbook The Best of the Recipe Detective [published by Balboa Press (January 2018, 1st Printing, p. 89) a re-write of her famous, self-published book, Gloria Pitzers Better Cookery Cookbook (May 1983, 3rd Printing)]: THIS RECIPE was created on-the-spot when I discovered that my usual ingredients andmost familiar utensils were not readyto use on The Donahue Show ( July 7, 1981) I had to adlib the experience, calling upon every possible thing I could remember about good cooking. Mom tried to inspire me, but I just didnt have the self-confidence to promote myself or my talents like her. When he died, he left a multi-million-dollar food empire. I laid my head on my desk many a time, in tears of anguish and fatigue. As much as they loved being near their family members, out there, that they rarely got to see, Mom couldnt work or create in California! Pitzer diligently did just that-to discover that the secret behind that finger lickin flavor was Good Seasons brand Italian salad dressing mix. In 2003, the legendary television host Phil Donahue was fired from his prime-time MSNBC talk show during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The recipe had to be revamped right then and there on camera. To Mom, the Donahue Show appearance always remained the single, most important part of her Secret Recipes growing experience. 133 days. Taken as a whole, this cooking is to ordinary fare as scarlet-covered romances are to ordinary lifenormal caution cast aside for the pleasure of total surrender to the charming and surely not totally unscrupulous ravisher. Phillip John Donahue was born on 21 December 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio USA, and is a film producer, writer and media personality, but perhaps still best known for creating and hosting his own "The Phil Donahue Show", which was the first talk show to include audience participation. There was a toaster oven on the table the staff had set up for me to use during the livetelecast of the show. Like any proud mom, she loved to talk about her babies (the recipes, newsletters and cookbooks)! Mind you marketing necessity has already rendered much of the Internet a dead zone. Bake the crust, empty, for 10 minutes at 400-F; then, remove and, immediately, add your favorite sauce while its warm. 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In the Fall season of 1981, after the over-whelming response to her 1st appearance on the Phil Donahue Show Mom was repeatedly laying her head on her desk, in tears of anguish and fatigue, as the family-operated, dining-room-table business went from rags-to-riches, in terms of public response to her creations. Then, like an encounter between two strangers in pick-up bar, both looking for an easy one-night stand, there is eating that knows it had best not look too closely and just take it as it comes. +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. In addition, I grew up with Moms authored and self-published creations and accomplishments. Given the honorary title of Colonel by the state of Kentucky, for his contributions to its cuisine, he remains one of the most respected and recognized figures in the food industry. Similar to the development of life, creating and producing something can be a stressful AND beautiful AND rewarding time all rolled into one! Many items relating only to Graham outside the BGEA remain, but most of the Graham-only materials are in Collection 15. FROM MOMS MEMORIES: Recipe DetectiveTM is the name that was given to me by my radio friends, years ago, because I was able to investigate the secrets of the food industry and come up with workable recipes for imitating their special dishes and grocery products. Gloria Pitzer (1982), Paul Harvey,broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks , [Thank you] for [your] kind words about my work. They can still be done safely, even amidst this pandemic and our crazy new norms. 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Her radio appearances helped by her perky, unpretentious personality and unabashed enthusiasm brought her thousands of letters. https://archives.wheaton.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/40731 Accessed January 18, 2023. 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. But, soon enough, many copycats certainly followed, copying Moms focus on imitating the junk food, fast food and restaurant industries products that so many people craved some followers even copied Moms work, to the point of straight-up plagiarism! Judd Hirsch, Jere Burns, Comic Relief IV: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law) and his brother Colin, Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker (L.A. Story), TV Couples: Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Craig T. 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Amazingly, when the Phil Donahue Show people called again, 12 years later, in 1993, Mom agreed to return for another episode; but only with the stipulation that they not give out any contact information for Secret RecipesTM or our family. I think she really enjoyed the promotional schedules of radio talk shows after each of her cookbooks (and newsletter issues) premiered. Phil Donahue: Alright, Reverend, I want to continue with that, right after this word from the people who pay the bills! And while not all her recipes are like this, many are. Turn your electric mixer on high and beat mixture in a bowl for about 30 seconds or until it comes away from the center and hits the sides of the bowl. John Wayne, Phil Donahue, Interview, Talk Show, VHS 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 singing cowboy, Ronald Reagan, impressionists, pornography, and much more. Sometime in the mid-1970s, Gloria Pitzer [quit] her job as food editor at a local paper because she insisted on giving readers the recipes they wanted, not the recipes her editor felt they ought to want. Before Mom hung up her hat and magnifying glass to fully retire, (in exchange for a self-addressed, stamped envelope) she was graciously giving away free sheets of 12-20 of her best, most popularly requested, recipes and information on what publications she had in print and how to get them. We know this, and we dont care. You guys rock! Milton Friedman and Phil Donahue discuss capitalism and free. The Truth: The Democrats did not have the Super Majority in the Senate for 2 years. I wanted to establish the fact that I was very much in business and willing to protect my copyrighted property with the same enthusiasm and sincerity as the major food companies had exhibited in protecting theirs from my imitations. 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