She was popular and trusted, a confidant for Inland Northwest brides and housewives to turn to when they needed help. With holiday dinners, drinks and decorations. With menus and games for children’s birthday parties. With any kind of domestic dilemma in the era before microwaves, America’s Test Kitchen, iPads and the Internet’s instantly searchable recipes. Dorothy Dean was reliable and reachable, practical and economical, an expert who seemed more like a surrogate mom or grandmother than a series of newspaper editors. Women who headed The Spokesman-Review’s Dorothy Dean Homemakers Service used the alliterative pseudonym for nearly 50 years. Many readers believed she was real, and decades...
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