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Elasticakes and Tennis Chops
Marinetti, Fillippo Tommaso. The Futurist Cookbook. Trans. Suzanne Brill. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989. Written by F. T. Marinetti, The Futurist Cookbook was published in 1932 in Italy. The book...
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Passing the Soup Before Passing Out
Erlanger, Baba and Daren Pierce. The Compleat Martini Cook Book. Illus. Elizabeth Fraser. New York: Random Thoughts, 1957. My mother barely drinks at all, and while my father does, it’s in a decidedly...
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The Best-Feeding Merchant Marine in the World
War Shipping Administration, Food Control Division. Cooking and Baking on Shipboard. Washington: GPO, 1945. 358pp. The Food Control Division of the War Shipping Administration (the agency that oversaw...
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So, obviously, I haven’t updated this blog in a while. I promise to do something substantive about that soon. Very soon. In the meantime, I have a small offering. I helped out with this a year or so...
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Child’s Play
Oliver, Michel. La Cuisine Est Un Jeu D’Enfants. Paris: Plon, 1963. Brief infatuation with From Mr. Bingle’s Kitchen aside (the recipe for fruit pizza was and is awesome), I never had much interest in...
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A Turkey in a Tuxedo
Fobel, Jim. Beautiful Food. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. The lacquered lobster on the cover was all it took. I was unable to resist buying Jim Fobel’s Beautiful Food when I found it in a...
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“Pickle-Sickles” and Other “Colorful” Treats
Better Homes and Gardens Guide to Entertaining. New York: Meredith Books, 1969. My favorite book about entertaining is, without a doubt, Elsa Maxwell’s How to Do It, but the Better Homes and Gardens...
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Orgies and Other Large Parties
Margolis, Jack S. and Daud Alani. Cooking for Orgies and Other Large Parties. Los Angeles: Cliff House Books, 1972. I have been known to buy them in moments of weakness, but I don’t really approve of...
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Helps for the Hostess
Helps for the Hostess. Camden, NJ: Joseph Campbell Company, 1916. I was going to begin this post by triumphantly declaring that I didn’t own a single can of Campbell’s soup. But when I went to the...
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Jell-O and the Kewpies
Jell-O and the Kewpies. New York: American Lithographic Co., 1915. When I was twelve years old, we moved from a semi-suburban, overwhelmingly Mormon neighborhood to a neighborhood full of hippies. My...
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