About Betty Wason:
Elizabeth Wason was an American author and broadcast journalist; a pioneer, with such others as Mary Marvin Breckinridge and Sigrid Schultz, of female journalism in the United States. She worked for and with Edward R. Murrow during World War II, though she and a handful of other journalists were never included in the famed group of Murrow's Boys. She wrote numerous books on food and cooking from the 1940s through 1981.