‘Marian Manners’ Stirs Memories

I read with interest your story on cooking courses by “Marian Manners” (“Times Past,” May 31). It brought back memories from about 1955. My husband and I came to the U.S. in 1953. I went through my file “Contest Recipes” and found a handwritten note (in pencil, but not dated) reminiscing about the cookery lessons of the L.A. Times given under the “superb direction of Mrs. Hoke, the ‘Marian Manners’ of those years.” I took the bus to L.A. to attend those lessons.

“As a newcomer,” I wrote, “I was deeply impressed by these lessons, and could not resist to write an article about them, which was published in a magazine for women in Holland, my homeland.”

In February of 1957 I won $10 in a recipe contest by Marian Manners, Times food editor, for Pommes Chantilly, chosen from 200 entries that week. The recipe came from Holland, but originated in France. Thanks for the memories!

TRUDY A. KOENE

Hollywood