She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

"Singer and actress, appearing in operettas and on network television, under name Rosamund Vance, 1941-53."

She helped adapt two compilations from UNICEF; one was a book of prayers and another was legends from around the world. There were four books (the other two had songs and poems); all of them were compiled by her late husband, cookbook author and photographer William I. Kaufman.


WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

(Editor) William I. Kaufman and Sister Mary Ursula Cooper, The Art of Creole Cookery, Doubleday, 1962.
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(cover)

Checklist for Expectant Mothers, Doubleday, 1964.

(Researcher and translator) W. Kaufman, Cooking in a Castle: La Cuisine dans un Chateau, Bonanza Books, 1965.
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(Editor) W. Kaufman, The Hot Dog Cookbook, Doubleday, 1966.

(Editor) W. Kaufman, The Apple Cookbook, Doubleday, 1967.
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(Editor) W. Kaufman, The Chocolate Cookbook, Doubleday, 1968.
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(cover - there's more than one edition)

(Researcher and translator) W. Kaufman, Guide to the French Hotels of Character, Traversac, 1968.

(Adapter with Joan Gilbert Van Poznak) W. Kaufman, compiler, UNICEF Book of Children's Prayers, Stackpole, 1970.
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(Adapter) W. Kaufman, compiler, UNICEF Book of Children's Legends, Stackpole, 1970.
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(With Sybil Leek) Astrological Guide to Love and Sex, Pyramid, 1971.

"Also researcher and translator for The Champagne Cookbook, 1969."


Contents of "UNICEF Book of Children's Legends":

Five White Eagles - The Origin of the Sierra Nevadas de Merida (Venezuela)

Czar Trojan's Ears (Yugoslavia - this is clearly based on the second myth of King Midas)

Don't Be in as Great a Hurry as Your Father (Algeria)

Hatemtai (Pakistan - about charity and honesty)

The Krishna Legend (India)

The Magic Teakettle (Japan)

The Clam, the Stork and the Fisherman (Korea - very amusing)

Legend of China Poblana (Mexico - about an early 17th-century princess from India who was sold as a slave in Mexico, created the Mexican national costume, and is buried in Acapulco)

Christmas Flowers (El Salvador - about war and symbolism)

How Wisdom Was Scattered over the Earth to All Men (Nigeria - this also appears in Joyce Cooper Arkhurst's "The Adventures of Spider" and is very memorable)

The Chicken Stars (Thailand - origin of the Pleiades)

The Valley of Rest (Guatemala)

Aunty Betel Nut (Afghanistan - I recommend not reading this one aloud - especially not to a group of kids without permission)

The Love of the Skunk (Bolivia, moon-myth)

Legend of a Child (Rwanda - I like this one)

The Giant Caterpillar (Republic of the Ivory Coast)

The Cleverest Son (Ethiopia)

The Giant Child (Peru - about St. Christopher)

How Women Grew Long Hair (Sierra Leone)

Challenge of the Sun and the Wind (Kenya - essentially a copy of Aesop's fable)

The Temperamental Woman (Mali - another tale of dubious merit, considering the child is 3 and not 2)

Son of the Turtle Spirit (Hong Kong - long and good)

A Sledge Ride (Denmark - clearly linked to "The Golden Goose")

Gahan Goes to Church (Malta - about a young fool)

The Foolish Hyena (Senegal)

The Walls of Jericho (Israel - not the Biblical story, per se - it's modern and humorous)

Quinde, Bird of the Fire (Ecuador)

Nasreddin Hodja (Turkey - the tale of the saucepans)

The First Filipino (Philippines - you may have read this in Helen Doss' "The Family Nobody Wanted")


On page 4:

"Because the language of a child's heart is universal, the photographs and legends have been arranged to complement each other according to the meaning of each and not according to the country from which each comes."


Lenona.