AdvertisementCollards And Canoodling: How Helen Gurley Brown Promoted Premarital CookingJuly 26, 2016Nina MartyrisfacebookEmailHelen Gurley Brown in her office at Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1960s .The legendary editor, subject of two new biographies, knew sex sells – and food brings in ad money. She cannily combined them with features like "After Bed, What? (a light snack for an encore)." (Getty Images)