1950, meet 2020. The Betty Crocker is said to be the most-sold cookbook in American history, and the iconic first edition, with its signature red cover, is the most-used book in my own house.By ...

The many faces of Betty Crocker. An outlier. As I explain to students in my food and literature courses, cookbooks aren’t valued solely for the quality of their recipes.

The “Big Red” cookbook was first published in 1950. Her eponymous “Big Red” cookbook, first published in 1950 and revised 12 times in the years since to reflect changes in taste ...

For someone who exists only in our collective imagination, Betty Crocker has made quite a mark on American home cooking. Her eponymous “Big Red” cookbook, first published in 1950 and revised ...

Betty Crocker never actually existed in flesh-and-blood form, but long before she started churning out boxed cake mixes and frostings, she was used for an ad campaign for Gold Medal flour in 1921.

Vintage cookbooks provide a fun glance into the food and customs of the past, and some may be worth a lot of money. Here’s a ...

Also, the Betty Crocker cookbook series has published more than 300 titles on subjects ranging from boys and girls, Christmas cookies, entertaining and diabetes to Indian and Mexican home cooking ...

For someone who exists only in our collective imagination, Betty Crocker has made quite a mark on American home cooking. Her eponymous “Big Red” cookbook, first published in 1950 and revised ...

When the cookbook (then titled “Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book”) arrived it was a remarkable production that took 10 years of planning and three years of project development, wrote Marks.

The Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook can help hungry folks like me learn to create edible, even tasty, recipes. If a recipe has more than three ingredients or doesn't require a can opener, I'm lost.