Maida Heatter Always Had Brownies in Her Bag
Briefly

"I could not believe what happened. In the audience were Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, Martha Stewart, Madeleine Kamman, Daniel Boulud, etcetera. The most sophisticated food people in the country. I had brought about fifty brownies. I wish I had more. The crowd went wild."
"But this was not simple generosity. It was blatant self-promotion. If you were in the restaurant business or trying to sell cookbooks, especially in the pre-social media age, you had to prove over and over again that you had the goods."
Read at Eater
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