Title:
The gallery of regrettable food / James Lileks.
Author:
Lileks, James.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, ©2001.
Call Number:
TX714 .L555 2001
Abstract:
A collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00065614.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/00065614.html
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780609607824
Physical Description:
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
What's black and white and dead all over? -- Cooking with 7UP -- The A.1 guide to better sex -- Moldorama -- Big boys don't fry : the sexual politics of grilling -- Glop in a pot -- Sic transit gloria iturbi -- Horrors from the briny deep -- Direct from foreign shores -- Volume 10 : HOT-LAN -- It's the 1950s and everyone's human but Mom -- Jell-o ignores the difficult '60s -- Jell-o : the groovy '70s -- Submit to the power of ketchup -- Famous chefs forced to use marshmallows -- Meat! meat! meat! -- Mr. Peanut, chef of chefs -- Poultry for the glum -- So you're going to serve a salad -- Aunt Jenny explains it all -- Swanson's parade of lost identity -- All the smart people eat toast -- Even fictional people need vitamins -- Eat brains and whip Hitler -- Specialties of the house.
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