For millions of classic TV fans, Ann B. Davis will always be Alice Nelson, the wisecracking housekeeper on The Brady Bunch. From 1969 to 1974, the character was perfectly at home in the Brady kitchen, whipping up everything from strawberry preserves to pork chops and applesauce to the perfect after-school chocolate chip cookies.
But in real life, Davis, who died in 2014 at age 88, had a very different relationship with the kitchen. The actress never cooked at home, but still put her name on a cookbook 20 years after the ABC sitcom ended its run.
Alice’s Brady Bunch cookbook was published in 1994. The book contained more than 280 recipes collected by Davis as well as recipes from each Brady Bunch cast member, according to Goodreads.
According to Deseret News, Davis worked with Ron Smolen, co-founder of the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, and his wife Diane to help her gather and test the recipes for the cookbook.
The recipe titles are tied to the classic TV sitcom, such as “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Muffins,” “Cindy’s Buttery Just Butter Cookies,” “House of Cards Hamburgers” and “Baked Bananas a la Brady.”
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At the time of the book’s publication, Davis made a rare late-night appearance to promote her cookbook on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, admitting, “I’m an actress, I play cooks.”
Noting that the Smolens curated the cookbook, she clarified, “I’ve got a recipe in there, and it’s my favorite; it’s my own secret recipe for beef jerky. I call it a secret because I keep trying to give it away so other people will do it!”
In 1995, Davis came clean about her lack of culinary skills.
“Personally, I can’t cook,” she told The Allentown Morning Call, per Orlando Sentinel. “Well, I don’t cook — maybe a steak or a chop — but nothing that merits me giving any advice whatsoever, with the exception, of course, of my secret recipe for beef jerky, which somebody gave me eons ago.”
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