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    Recipes and Photographs

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    Approx. 12 items: photographs of Fleeta Hoke posed with products, on-stage at the College of Cookery, etc. ; recipe printouts ; etc.

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    Other items

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    Photograph of Times staffers on College of Cookery stage; Fleeta Hoke is in the center wearing chef's hat. Black and white skirt apron with drawings of poodle hairstyles.

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    History

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    6 items: 5-pp. handwritten inventory of materials relating to "Marian Manners," the Times College of Cookery, etc. ; two copies of article copied from Among Ourselves, 12/1978, "In Times Past," giving a brief history of Fleeta Hoke (aka "Marian Manners"), director of the Times Home Economics Department and the "star" of the Times College of Cookery ; other materials related to the Los Angeles Times Cooking School.

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    Miscellaneous Personal Materials

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    Approx. 15 items: clippings, letters, two KLM (airline) menu booklets, and related material. Notable item: booklet, approx. 35 pages., staple bound, "College of Wartime Cookery - Recipe Collection..." presented by "Marian Manners." (Marian Manners was a pseudonym for Fleeta Hoke, LAT Food Editor.)

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    Hoke, Fleeta Files

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    Fleeta Hoke (1901-1995), better known as "Marian Manners," was the earliest food editor of the Times. From 1939 to 1964, Hoke edited the food articles and demonstrated recipes and cooking techniques at the Times's "College of Cookery." Includes recipe cards, correspondence, photographs, publications, and objects. Date range is 1931-1970s.

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    College of Cookery By Mail

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    Approx. 8 items: a collection of LAT "College of Cookery" bulletins. Index is labeled Spring 1956.

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