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Article: Actress Gretchen Cryer Markets Home-Cooked Meals By Mail
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 2, 1992
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Remember care packages? Those bundles of love and favorite foods
may have gotten you over a spate of bad food at summer camp or saved
you from starvation during freshman year at college.
Unfortunately, as actress and writer Gretchen Cryer discovered,
rough patches don't end when you turn 21.
"About four or five years ago, my parents in Indiana both became
invalids at the same time," Cryer said. "My dad had a stroke and
mother had osteoporosis. My brother cared for my parents, but he
couldn't cook. I (live) in New York and could only come in every
other month and cook massive amounts of food for them.
"Then one day I noticed a UPS truck and thought I'd surprise my
family and cook a ...