This issue of the men's magazine Saga includes an excerpt from Ch. VII of M.F.K. Fisher's 1961 book A Cordiall Water. The Saga article, titled "Memoir From an Earthy Gal", is mostly about "practical" uses for human urine and feces as fern fertilizer, skin softener, freckle remover, and potions to cure fever or "grip and fitts in children". The front cover of this very macho men's magazine announces that it contains a "Zany Memoir from Country's Earthiest Gal", and the subtitle to the article starting on p. 58 says "Women do a slow burn when Mary reveals the hilarious secrets most gals keep to themselves. Try Mary's elixirs on your women. They'll blow up!" The Editors Note above Fisher's photo says that "...during a wild and wooly lifetime she has made her home in Mexico, France, Italy and Switzerland, while no doubt beguiling every guy in hailing distance with her potions, charms, brews.". This is a funny characterization of wild, wooly "Mary" (rather than Mary Frances, or Mrs. Fisher), and she never lived in Mexico. Interestingly, on pp. 128-29 of Luke Barr's book Provence, 1970 (Barr was Fisher's grand-nephew), he recounts a conversation wherein Fisher's agent Henry Volkening asked if she would be interested in writing a book called How to Cook in Bed - A Primer for Hungry Lovers? Here answer was a firm NO, and Barr writes that she had been "infuriated" when Little, Brown had sold an excerpt from her 1961 book A Cordiall Water to "a stud magazine" (refering to Saga).