in 1979, allowing her lenders to foreclose upon the property. The loss of the property left her "bankrupt and shellshocked." Retirement Brock never intended to pursue a career in the restaurant business and always expressed more interest in art. She did a few printings for an exhibition shortly before leaving the Berkshires, and all of them sold, further encouraging her to pursue it more seriously. After the closure of Alice's at Avaloch, she relocated to Provincetown, where she set up an art studio. She spent most of the 1980s as a prep cook for various restaurants in Provincetown before leaving full-time work in part because of a diagnosis of emphysema in the 1990s. A chronic cigarette smoker of up to three packs a day, she visited hypnotist Yefim Shubentsov in 1991, who cured her of her addiction. In 2014, Brock made a one-time appearance at the Dream Away Lodge in Becket, Massachusetts, where she and other chefs inspired by her prepared some of her old recipes. Brock's personal favorite medium is rock art, a medium that she practiced most of her adult life; she was an active and early participant in The Kindness Rock Project, in which she painted rocks and encouraged people to hide them in unusual places to be found and relocated. Her home art gallery was located on Commercial Street overlooking Cape Cod. She continues to return to the Berkshires each Thanksgiving and host a dinner with her friends. Her 2022 dinner was hosted at the home of Richard Robbins, who had helped Guthrie dispose Brock's garbage in 1965 and still lives in Housatonic; Guthrie visited the dinner, reuniting the three for their first Thanksgiving dinner together in 57 years. In addition to the Cookbook, Brock has also authored two other books: her 1976 autobiography My Life as a Restaurant and a children's book, How to Massage Your Cat. She also illustrated another children's book, Mooses Come Walking, written by Arlo Guthrie. Brock initially bristled at the fame that the song and film had brought upon her but later came to appreciate her role as an icon of the 1960s. Her current stance on her fame is that she neither openly advertises it nor hides from it; it was not until the 2000s that she became comfortable being associated with the song. She still resents how the film portrayed her but states that the joy people get