The Saturday Sip: August 15, 2026

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Thank you for any help or direction you can provide.

Best,

Tonya

Or,

Again, thank you so much; we are really excited about moving forward!

Sincerely,

Alan

This simple, two-ingredient recipe is a delicious accompaniment to most vegetables, and we’d venture to guess it would go great with steak, chicken, or pork as well.

Pg. 233 Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951. Please note that recipes are copied as is.

TIME: 10 minutes

SERVES: 4

• 2 hard-boiled eggs

• 1/2 lb. butter

Grate eggs and put them with the butter in a bowl. Set bowl in hot water and mix eggs and butter when it melts. Serve when heated. No salt or pepper is used because just the flavor of the butter and eggs is delicious, especially on fresh asparagus.

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An article on Emily Post circa 1995. It reads:

To the manners born, the wealthy socialite taught the middle class couth

Her well-bred family was appalled when she took the then-unthinkable step of divorcing her philandering banker husband, Edwin, and set off to raise two young sons as a single mother in turn-of-the-century New York City. Emily Price Post, a willowy brunette with Gibson Girl Looks, whose architect father designed New York’s exclusive Tuxedo Park, managed to parlay her blue-blooded background (finishing school, summers in Bar Harbor, Maine, and Europe into society novels that earned enough to send offspring Bruce and Ned through Harvard. Though scorning existing books of good manners as pretentious (”Nothing,” she once said, “is less important than which fork you use), Post was cajoled into writing a commonsensible update. Her Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage became an immediate bestseller when it appeared in I922, appealing to a new middle class eager to make its way in society.

Just a few years after that triumph, she was devastated by the death of architect son Bruce but coped, continuing to turn out a column syndicated in over 200 newspapers and hosting a regular radio broadcast. So beloved was she for her effervescent personality and decidedly unstuffy advice that when Walter Winchell announced she was ill, 100 telegrams arrived within the hour. When she died at 86, in 1960, the dynasty continued. Peggy Post, the current incumbent, competes with sassier colleagues like Judith (Miss Manners) Martin and tackles thornier issues, like dealing with ethnic jokes and gay marriage.

But, says Peggy of her great-grandmother-in-law: “I don’t think she’d be thrown by today’s etiquette questions. I think she would have moved along with the times.” -

Photo caption: “Etiquette is the science of living.” Post maintained. She liked to work in bed after her coffee and zweiback.