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Best of Bridge Publishing Ltd. fonds
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25 cm of textual records. -- ca. 100 photographs
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Best of Bridge Publishing Ltd. was formed by a group of women in Calgary, Alberta who met regularly to play bridge and who decided to publish a cookbook of their favourite recipes. Karen Brimacombe, Mary Halpen, Linda Jacobson, Helen Miles, Val Robinson, Marilyn Lyle and Joan Wilson ultimately published nine best-selling cookbooks and promoted these volumes energetically for several decades through the media and bookstores. In total they sold over three million copies worldwide. The group also hosted a short-lived cooking show on television. They retired in 2008 and licensed their brand to another company operated by Robert Rose. The books were The Best of Bridge (1976), Enjoy! (1979), Winners (1984), Grand Slam (1988), Aces (1992), That's Trump (1995), The Best of the Best and More (1998), A Year of the Best (2001) and The Rest of the Best and More (2004). A new group of food writers was enlisted to reinvigorate the brand in 2015 including Julie Van Rosendaal, Elizabeth Chorney-Booth, and Sue Duncan.
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Records originate from the Glenbow but are available at the Glenbow Western Research Centre, University of Calgary
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The fonds consists of publicity files, business proposals, news paper clippings, posters, legal documents, photographs, and videotapes.
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Gift of Best of Bridge Publishing Ltd., 2008.
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Call number M-9305
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- Best of Bridge Publishing (Subject)
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- English