I’ve come across a fair share of librarians in my cookbooks. Librarians might be next behind home economists as far as professions of recipe-contributors goes.
Unfortunately, I could find scarce information about Ruth Wood, who contributed this “good luncheon dish” to “Once Upon A Thyme in Charles Village” in 1972. Her name is too common to easily search, but the recipe caption associates her with the Waverly Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Ruth Wood was born Ruth Staebner in Tennessee in 1920. She grew up in Falls Church, Virginia.
She attended the College of William and Mary before coming to Baltimore to work at the library.
A book-mobile librarian in the 1960s, Wood was promoted to head up the Waverly Branch in 1971, when the library opened at its current location on 33rd street, replacing the “Homestead Branch” on 1442 Gorsuch Avenue.