Just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so does taste depend on each person. Some like wild food combinations (think of sriracha coupled with peanut butter), while others opt for more traditionally approved tastes.
Here's a load of vintage Japanese adverts with cute and fun illustrations to brighten up your Monday.
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14 Food Failures from the '50s and '60s That'll Make You Say "Jell-No" - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Since its inception in 1937, Spam has earned heaping amounts of both praise and scorn. It’s truly one of those foods that you either love or hate.
Just because you can, does not mean that you should. While the 1950s were a decade of innovative change and prosperity following years of rationing and shortages, it was the 1960's that saw the introduction of mass production. In the late '60s, 70's and 80's with new technologies available in small appliances, we see a
"Atora" is the Maori word for chronic heart disease.
Let’s see a show of hands: Who out there likes canned baked beans? I have to admit that I do enjoy baked beans, even of the canned variety. And I can understand adding a few ingredients to a can of baked beans to perk up the flavor, which is very common in mid-century recipes. However, […]
Published in the May 1943 issue of Woman's Day magazine.
1941.
While their names may sound like fairy tale creations, these foods are rooted in reality and demonstrate the British love of unusual monikers and its ingenuity and inventiveness.
For those who believe that American cuisine used to be "great."
Let's party!! ad, 1968
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A lot can change in, say, 50 years. Just look at the car or communication industry. How we eat is no exception. And nothing shows it as vividly as the Facebook group Questionable Vintage Recipes.
A lovely idea from the Davis Gelatine book, "New Creative Cookery". Why not take a lemon and fill it with mashed-up tinned sardines set in a lemon jelly? And flavour it all with horseradish...
Pictures from the era of the showboat dinner party
Mad Men brought us many great moments this season, and so did our weekly search for vintage ads to accompany the episode each Monday morning. In the process, we discovered many visually and thematically interesting advertisements in the 1968 archives that did not fit with the current episode’s themes. We decided to share some of … Continue reading Mad Men Monday Friday: The “Outtakes” Blog →
Let me apologize for going all Pulp Fiction on you with Dinner is Served! and not putting my dinners in chronological order, and writing about New Year’s before Christmas. But this is how it …
Just because you can, does not mean that you should. While the 1950s were a decade of innovative change and prosperity following years of rationing and shortages, it was the 1960's that saw the introduction of mass production. In the late '60s, 70's and 80's with new technologies available in small appliances, we see a
...old recipes, mystery results...
Alway entertaining at buffets! "The Encyclopedia Of Creative Cookery"
Source: Star Weekly, October 3, 1964
Pictures from the era of the showboat dinner party
Now, I'm the first to say that the words "summertime" and "casserole" are not always one that I instantly group together, but there's a ve...
