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Gallery Of Regrettable Food Highlights From Classic American Recipe Books

(Hardcover Book )

by:
Lileks, James

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Product Details:

Hardcover Book :

192 Pages

Publisher:

Crown Publishers Inc.

Pub. Date:

Sep 11, 2001

Photos:

Color Photographs

Our Part #:

01679

ISBN-10:

0609607820

ISBN-13:

9780609607824

Description:

Based on the popular website of the same name, this is a hilarious, fully illustrated send-up of the stomach-turning cookbooks of a bygone (thank goodness!) era.

James Lileks wonders why everyone in the1940s, '50s, and '60s did not perish. If their cookbooks are any indication, then recipes featuring pale, gray-green meat trimmed with cold, burnt cheese and a generous dollop of lurid ketchup were de rigeur for the times. In this delightfully gross collection, Lileks pairs horrid photos from old cookbooks, food ads, and culinary miscellany, with deliciously acerbic commentary: This is a dish whose hue and unrelenting chunkiness prompts a rash of coat-gathering, pale faces, and muttered apologies. My, look at the time...

Included in this best-of-the-worst volume are 7-Up Cottage Cheese Pancakes and Bacon Milkshakes. Breakfast anyone?

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