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Article: Virginia Johnson masters recipe hobby
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 21, 1988
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Sex researcher Virginia Johnson confesses a passion, and it's
for cookbooks.
"Collecting cookbooks is a vice," she said. "I've been addicted
since I was a tot, when I started saving those pamphlets that came
with bottles of Watkins vanilla. I stole every recipe book I could
get my hands on - with no selectivity, I must admit. Even today, I
must have hundreds and hundreds."
She adds, with a laugh, "Reading recipes keeps me from the
onerous chore of having to make a lot of rich food that would
inevitably settle in at the hip!"
Sometimes, though, she does more with recipes than simply read
them.
That's because she loves to cook, she said during a interview
recently in St. Louis, where ...