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Gelatin, Gristle & Gravy: A Look Inside Vintage Cookbooks

Gelatin, Gristle & Gravy: A Look Inside Vintage Cookbooks

Perhaps more interesting than the recipes are the illustrations in these old cookbooks.  Sometimes mouth-watering, ...
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Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Buon Appetito! Italian Snack & Junk Food Ads from the 1960s-1980s

Look out for flying Italian snacks!  Here is a dolce e delizioso compendium of junk food ...
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The Foods of Provincial New Jersey In Vintage Postcards

The Foods of Provincial New Jersey In Vintage Postcards

Curator William Bird has a great eye for a postcard. In 'The Foods of Provincial New ...
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Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

  Mmm-mm. Dee-lish!  They sure knew how to make a meat paste look tasty back ...
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Hideous Food Adverts For Regrettable Meals (1968)

Hideous Food Adverts For Regrettable Meals (1968)

  Nothing makes me want a can of meat paste more than seeing it ground ...
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Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Ugly Vintage Meats: Before There Were Food Stylists

Cookbooks and adverts prior to the 1980s had a knack for making food look downright ...
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Ice Cream Is Good: A 1948 Booklet By The National Dairy Council

Ice Cream Is Good: A 1948 Booklet By The National Dairy Council

Ice Cream is Good: a 1948 booklet published by the National Dairy Council.     The ...
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1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

  Vegans, shield your eyes. You're about to enter an All-70s-Meat-Zone, and it's not going ...
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Supermarket Makeover: 9 Ways Your Old Grocery Store Has Changed

Supermarket Makeover: 9 Ways Your Old Grocery Store Has Changed

Variety Run Amok In the 70s, if you wanted an Oreo, you got the chocolate ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

  The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...
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America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

We've all heard that portion size has gotten out of control – your average 1970s ...
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