author
Jeanette Hindman Elliott
A little-known cookbook co-author whose surviving work captures the cheerful, product-driven style of mid-century American home cooking. Her recipes, written with Alfred Festen, turn everyday crackers and cookies into party dishes, desserts, and easy entertaining ideas.
1 Audiobook
To Be "Talked About" Use Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'
by Jeanette Hindman Elliott, Alfred Festen
About the author
Jeanette Hindman Elliott is known for co-authoring the vintage cookbook To Be "Talked About" Use Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin' with Alfred Festen. Reliable catalog and audiobook sources identify it as a cookbook connected with the United Biscuit Company of America, later known as the Keebler Company.
The book reflects a distinctly mid-century approach to home entertaining: practical recipes, brand-name ingredients, and an upbeat promise that simple food can still impress guests. It ranges from appetizers to desserts and shows how commercial cookbooks of the era blended advertising with everyday kitchen advice.
Very little biographical information about Elliott herself appears to be widely documented online. What can be confirmed is her association with this surviving cookbook, which has continued to circulate through projects such as Project Gutenberg and LibriVox, giving modern readers and listeners a glimpse of an earlier American cooking tradition.