Banana Meatloaf Tomato Soup Cake, and Spam Smoothies -- borderline tummy-turners to downright doubtful -- Retro Food Fiascos is a showcase of culinary curiosities from some of America's favorite magazines, cookbooks, and food companies. Actual recipes and images of some of the most claring dishes to ever leave the kitchen combine with commentary and quips to pay homage to those foods we'd rather forget. In the name of nutrition and creative cooking, the marketing and recipe writers of the 1950s cooked up some very suspicious combinations. Innovations in food processing and new products tempted everyone from the amateur cook to the professional chef to play with their food. And the results? We'll let you be the judge. Book jacket.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing, and many of us would love to explore the decades of the 1900s. In this cookbook, we share with you some of the classics of each decade, from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Some will be foods you've heard of but might ever have tried, while others might be familiar to you already. Each recipe has a detailed description of its ingredients and how to cook the food, recipes and tips to cook better. This illustrated cookbook will show you the way our great grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers used to cook food for their family. The recipes included here are from our family recipe boxes handwritten on cards and that have been passed down from one generation to the next. The dishes are heartwarming, healthy, and made every time with lots of love!

'Spaghetti in aspic, anyone? Revel in astonishing dishes from yesteryear: Stuffed Cocktail Grapes, Savoury Sausage Salad, a spunky Shrimp-Salmon Mould and so much more. Anna Pallai was brought up on 1970s stalwarts of stuffed peppers, meatloaf and platters of slightly greying hardboiled eggs. When she rediscovered her mother's grease-stained 70s cookbooks, she knew she needed to share them with the world, and so the hit Twitter account @70s_Party was born. Harking back to a simpler pre-Instagram, pre-clean-eating era, when the only concern for your dinner party was whether your aspic would set in time, this is a joyful celebration of food that can give you gout just by looking at it. Covering all the essentials, from starters through to desserts, dinner party etiquette (just how does one start to eat a swan fashioned from a hardboiled egg?) and the dreaded 'foreign' food, there's no potato-fashioned-as-a-stone left unturned.

"...Nostalgic recipes from the 'Mad Men' era, like Beef Wellington and Grasshopper Pie, finally get the rediscovery they're due." -- page 4 of cover.

The Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to cook simple, healthy, and seasonal food. A classic listed as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time by the New York Times, this 40th anniversary edition of Mollie Katzen's seminal book will be a treasured addition to the cookbook libraries of fans young and old. In 1974, Mollie Katzen hand-wrote, illustrated, and locally published a spiral-bound notebook of recipes for vegetarian dishes inspired by those she and fellow cooks served at their small restaurant co-op in Ithaca, NY. Several iterations and millions of copies later, the Moosewood Cookbook has become one of the most influential and beloved cookbooks of all time—inducted into the James Beard Award Cookbook Hall of Fame, and coined a Cookbook Classic by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Mollie’s Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to fall in love with plant-based home cooking, and, on the fortieth anniversary of that initial booklet, continues to be a seminal, timely, and wholly personal work. With a new introduction by Mollie, this commemorative edition will be a cornerstone for any cookbook collection that long-time fans and those just discovering Moosewood will treasure.

Want to discover some unforgettable delights from the 1960s? Try these meals and see how they take you back to the retro years. Your Customers Will Never Stop To Use This Amazing book! Have you ever been struck by food nostalgia? Well, that happens to most of us all the time whenever we miss our grandma's cookies or delicious pies our moms used to make. Each decade and era come with its own set of popular meal. For instance, fast food was never that popular in the first of the 20th century; it was by the end of it. Some meal evolves, recipes changes or new dishes emerge with time. There are lots of vintage dishes that are centuries old, and mankind still likes to have them, like the classic beef and lamb stews, the soups and fire-roasted chicken, all because we cannot get enough of them. Similarly, there are other traditional dishes that we all seem to be forgetting about, but they are must-try food for every vintage food lover. In this cookbook, you will get to find all the classic 1960s vintage recipes in one place. Now you won't have to look for those recipes in old rusty closets or cabinets, as you can have them in her, categorized into different sections. Why from the 1960s? You must be asking yourself this question right now! Well, when it comes to food, the 1960s is marked as the era of the culinary revolution in America. That's right! It was the period when people like Alice Waters and Chez Panisse start to set up a movement in motion for the New American Cuisine, and international cooking practices or exotic and healthy ingredients were brought into use. Before this period, there various regional cuisines and but the 1960s brought a nationwide New American cuisine with itself. As time passed, in few years, this cuisine became widely popular. During this period, the use of new kitchen technology was also on the rise, which greatly stretched the basic American menu and gave people a wide range of options to cook. Thus, the era is perfect for picking your favorite vintage recipes to try. So, there were all sorts of rising influences over the culinary culture and traditions of the country during that period. Eating practices were not only changing, but the food itself had become part of the activism during those years. That's what makes the 1960s food important for all. Here are some unforgettable delights from this era. Give these meals a try and see how they take you back in the retro years. Buy it NOW and let your customers get addicted to this amazing book!

A Finalist for the 2022 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award (Writing) The definitive biography of America’s best-known and least-understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give voice to the gourmet’s complex, queer life and, in the process, illuminates the history of American food in the twentieth century. At a time when stuffy French restaurants and soulless Continental cuisine prevailed, Beard invented something strange and new: the notion of an American cuisine. Informed by previously overlooked correspondence, years of archival research, and a close reading of everything Beard wrote, this majestic biography traces the emergence of personality in American food while reckoning with the outwardly gregarious Beard’s own need for love and connection, arguing that Beard turned an unapologetic pursuit of pleasure into a new model for food authors and experts. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903, Beard would journey from the pristine Pacific Coast to New York’s Greenwich Village by way of gay undergrounds in London and Paris of the 1920s. The failed actor–turned–Manhattan canapé hawker–turned–author and cooking teacher was the jovial bachelor uncle presiding over America’s kitchens for nearly four decades. In the 1940s he hosted one of the first television cooking shows, and by flouting the rules of publishing would end up crafting some of the most expressive cookbooks of the twentieth century, with recipes and stories that laid the groundwork for how we cook and eat today. In stirring, novelistic detail, The Man Who Ate Too Much brings to life a towering figure, a man who still represents the best in eating and yet has never been fully understood—until now. This is biography of the highest order, a book about the rise of America’s food written by the celebrated writer who fills in Beard’s life with the color and meaning earlier generations were afraid to examine.