An Appreciation: Marion Cunningham was Fannie Farmer, but with a delicious flair

I had worked with the late cookbook legend Marion Cunningham for several years before I actually met her. She was a columnist for The Times back in the 1990s, and I was one of her editors. Because she lived in the Bay Area, our conversations were mainly on the telephone, but I thought I had a pretty good mental image of what she would be like — sweet, open, down-home.

By Russ Parsons

July 14, 2012