I’ll never forget the day a friend of mine came to visit me for the first time at General Mills. She was asking me all sorts of questions about Betty Crocker and I said, “You know she wasn’t a real person, right?”
It was as if I had just broken the news that there was no Santa Claus. She was crushed. She truly believed there was a real live (at least at one time) Betty Crocker.
My friend has since recovered from the trauma, but for those of you who would like to attach a living-breathing visual to Betty Crocker, there’s a cool new online cooking club you can join (I know Andi has already mentioned the club, but I wanted to add my two cents). Two women host the cooking classes for the club—Lori Eaton and Katrina Szish—and while they don’t pretend to be Betty Crocker, they’ve got all kinds of cooking and baking know-how to share. There are 30-minute online classes, how-to videos, audience interaction and live chats. Thoroughly modern Betty!
The club is called The Mixer. The first show runs tonight at 6 pm CST. Just visit bettycrocker.com/the mixer and sign up. Best of all—it’s totally free.