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Dinner is Served! Cooking with Campbell’s Soup (1970)
A dear, dear friend of mine, knowing my deep and abiding taste for kitsch, sent me a copy of the Campbell Soup Company’s Cooking With Soup: 608 Skillet Dishes, Casseroles, Stews, Sauces, Gravies, Dips,...
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Travel Theme: Gaudy
Ailsa’s travel theme this week at Where’s My Backpack? is “gaudy”. The good people of Merriam-Webster define gaudy as: ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented, OR marked by extravagance or sometimes...
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The Kitchen Magician Food Glamorizer
My mother’s neighbor recently moved, and thanks to circumstances beyond the neighbor’s control (advanced age, limited living space, a bossy daughter) much of her non-essential belongings ended up...
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What Cookery Is This? My Great Recipe Cards, 1984
I remember being completely fascinated by my mother’s set of Betty Crocker recipe cards when I was but a wee paisley. At that point in my life I was in the running for the title of Pickiest Eater:...
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What Cookery Is This? My Great Recipe Cards 1984, Part 2
It’s kind of difficult for me to comprehend what must have been the utter travesty that was a full set of My Great Recipe Cards. I only have maybe…maybe…a quarter of the set (and I’m betting that’s an...
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So Long, Roger Ebert, and Thanks.
By now, we have all learned about–and, I hope, mourned–the passing of Roger Ebert. The first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, he was also a keen-eyed social critic and a lot of fun...
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Beans! Enjoyable the World Over
While I was out shopping in our local flea market and home of amazeballs finds, I came across BEANS: Enjoyable the World Over. A mini-cookbook and repository of bean knowledge, this li’l joybomb was...
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SCORE!
I was in the flea-markety basement of Street of Shops, the closest thing I’ve seen to a bazaar for freaks, weeding through old dishes and dated cookbooks and discarded dolls and rusted cookie tins....
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Flea Market Find: The Story of Cane Sugar
…which sounds like it could be a porno, but it isn’t. Instead, it’s a pamphlet that is–best as I can figure–printed before 1941, when the Pennsylvania Sugar Company was taken over by the National...
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Thanks, I guess? For the memories…
Recently I came across an article on the internets featuring photos of abandoned Pocono-area honeymoon resorts. I don’t know if this was something people knew about across the US, but for east...
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