Three Quarters Century of Family Memories
Aunt Chick’s Famous Cookie Cutters will be celebrating its 75th year in 2013 From the 1930s to 1950s, Tulsa entrepreneur and inventor Nettie McBirney wrote for the Tulsa Daily World cooking column under the pen name, ‘Aunt Chick.’ Aunt Chick also gave culinary lectures and designed cookie cutters, pie tins, and pastry cloths–but it was […]
Aunt Chick named in the Oklahoma 100 – The state’s best food, restaurants and cooks
She dispensed practical kitchen wisdom to several generations of cooks and solved the problem of weepy meringue. But the Tulsa World’s Aunt Chick is remembered best for her cookie cutters. There’s the jolly Santa with the puffy cheeks and curly beard. And the stocking with its patch at the toe and toys coming out of […]
Nettie McBirney added to Wikipedia
Find information on Nettie McBirney’s life, family, career, and inventions on Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettie_McBirney
Remembering Aunt Chick’s Cookie Cutters
NICOLE MARSHALL MIDDLETON World Scene Writer Decades have passed since Tulsa’s own Aunt Chick began selling her world-famous cookie cutters. Yet, like the inventor herself, the celebrated cookie cutters made an indelible mark in the lives of many. The molded cookie cutters, one of many kitchen creations dreamed up by former Tulsa World food writer […]
Company continues Aunt Chick’s cookie-cutter legacy
NICOLE MARSHALL MIDDLETON World Scene Writer Decades have passed since Tulsa’s own Aunt Chick began selling her world-famous cookie cutters. Yet, like the inventor herself, the celebrated cookie cutters made an indelible mark in the lives of many. The molded cookie cutters, one of many kitchen creations dreamed up by former Tulsa World food writer […]
Aunt Chick’s granddaughter shares memories of colorful cookie mold inventor
By NICOLE MARSHALL MIDDLETON World Scene Writer / Tulsa World Sometimes Megan Bryan feels like her grandmother, the colorful cookbook author and cookie mold inventor Aunt Chick, is channeling through her. And that would totally be something Aunt Chick would do as she nearly never rested, always on the go chasing the next invention, inspiration […]
