I love eating, and I love cooking.
But not all food is good, and some cookbooks and/or recipes leave a lot to be desired!
Today’s FamilyFirst pick pays homage to bad cookbooks and recipes from the past. It’s called The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Here’s their mission:
What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge? Good questions, but you won’t find them answered here. This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It’s a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it’s a miracle that people didn’t put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn’t that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn’t non- nutritious – no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It’s that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.
Let’s take a look at a couple of delectably bad recipes.
There’s Carnation Bar-B-Burgers. The photograph shows raw ground beef in a bowl, mixed with spices, and someone pouring (are you ready for this?) canned milk all over it!
Ewwww…
How about a big olive/jello/aspic creation seasoned with Dr. Pepper?
(sigh) you’re going to have to see it to believe it.
Check it out. Just don’t take anything too seriously ;-).
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/spec.html
