Saturday, April 5, 2025

April is protein month, apparently

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Cooking by the Calendar  (edited by Marilyn Hansen, 1978) is excited about April, the time when "A sudden shower freshens the ground an...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Woman's Day goes banana collecting

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I understand why, say, Chiquita and Dole put out banana cook booklets. They obviously had an incentive to sell more bananas. I'm less s...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Funny Name: So Nice They Named It Twice

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After a nice breakfast of Double Double Chex Chex ,  The Stuart Simmers Cook Book (ca. 1970) recommends this for lunch: Just throw i...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Poppy unsurprisingly Knox another diet plan

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Protein has long been a thing in diet culture, as Knox Eat and Reduce Plan  (Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co., 1955) illustrates. The booklet st...
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Celebrate spring with an asparagus pinwheel!

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Happy Spring! To mark the season, I'm posting one of my favorite things: an elaborately-decorated molded salad. It's named, appropri...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The National Live Stock and Meat Board kind of forgot what it was doing...

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TV Meat Time (National Live Stock and Meat Board, undated, but given that TV seems like a novelty and TV dinners started being sold in 1953,...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Funny Name: Feelings Edition

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Would you like a dinner that's fast, easy, and likes to share its feelings by reading poetry at the open mic night at the independent co...
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