A Century of America's Favorite Foods
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Lots of recipes, tips and historical tidbits of information.
Reserving this to send to Caligula03. Hope she has many happy hours of cooking ahead of her.
Reserving this to send to Caligula03. Hope she has many happy hours of cooking ahead of her.
Looks like a wonderful book. Thank you. :)
It was fun a book to read, mostly for the historical tid bits and trivia included in the margins. Many of these "favorites" are ones I know and have eaten at many a family get-together. It was also interesting to see how food substitutes during the two world wars and the Depression (to some degree) helped to create the "convenience food" market and a generation of cooks who were dependent upon those "conveniences." The recipes in the 1950s and 1960s are so bland and homengeous at a time when families could afford greater variety of foods and the markets could have provided them.
Our cooking at home is more in the first third of the book. It's done mostly without "convenience" and without a lot of the electric gadgetry. Why? First of all, it's fun! Second we don't have the counter space or storage space for a lot of gagetry. Third, I hate a lot of clean up, and frankly those gadgets make clean-up take forever (or so it seems), and finally we just don't have the budget to buy all the latest must haves just to use them once or twice. We do have a blender but honestly I can't think of the last time my husband has used it; I've never used it.
Our cooking at home is more in the first third of the book. It's done mostly without "convenience" and without a lot of the electric gadgetry. Why? First of all, it's fun! Second we don't have the counter space or storage space for a lot of gagetry. Third, I hate a lot of clean up, and frankly those gadgets make clean-up take forever (or so it seems), and finally we just don't have the budget to buy all the latest must haves just to use them once or twice. We do have a blender but honestly I can't think of the last time my husband has used it; I've never used it.
Journal Entry 4 by caligula03 at Meet-Up Meeting, Starbucks in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Monday, October 23, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (11/14/2006 UTC) at Meet-Up Meeting, Starbucks in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA
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Taking to the November meeting.
Taking to the November meeting.
Picked up at this week's meeting of the TriValley BC group. It looks like a fun compendium of popular recipes through the decades. (Scary thought... I remember too many of these decades.) I look forward to trying some of the recipes and seeing if they are as tasty as I remember them!
11 December: I made a few of these recipes (Porcupine Meatballs and Carrot/Jello Salad), and frankly, it reminded me of how far we've come in our culinary level. Book released to a fellow BookCrosser at the December 12 meeting of the TriValley Book Crossing group in Dublin, California.
11 December: I made a few of these recipes (Porcupine Meatballs and Carrot/Jello Salad), and frankly, it reminded me of how far we've come in our culinary level. Book released to a fellow BookCrosser at the December 12 meeting of the TriValley Book Crossing group in Dublin, California.
Fantastic book I am keeping it but willing to loan it out.
