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Chargement... The Gallery of Regrettable Food: Highlights from Classic American Recipe Books (original 2001; édition 2001)par James Lileks (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Gallery of Regrettable Food par James Lileks (2001)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. After a while, it blurs into one horrible food that is critiqued with substandard jokes. ( ) James Lileks's website was one of the early hits of the web, starting way back in the 1990s. For "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" Lileks has perused old cookbooks to find any number of frankly disgusting looking and sounding meals for our enjoyment. Lileks also has a way with snark that adds to the descriptions of the recipes. I would like to think that there is a group of "Gallery of Regrettable Food" fans who make the meals and report back to the group on their sheer awfulness. As I was giggling my way through this book, I was struck by the unpleasant feeling that I had seen some of the cookbooks before. A quick look at my mother's collection of cookbooks confirmed that some of these noxious titles were in my own home! My entire childhood was spent in dangerous proximity to the recipes for these terrifying dishes! One of the funniest books I've read in a while. I was literally cackling out loud at every page. It consists of original copy from several American cookbooks from the 1950s-70s, augmented with the author's observations. The original photos, slogans, and drawings are already hilarious - more so because it's hard to believe they're real - and Lileks's commentary just pushes it all right over the top. Highly recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
WARNING: This is not a cookbook. You'll find no tongue-tempting treats within -- unless, of course, you consider Boiled Cow Elbow with Plaid Sauce to be your idea of a tasty meal. No, The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a public service. Learn to identify these dishes. Learn to regard shivering liver molds with suspicion. Learn why curries are a Communist plot to undermine decent, honest American spices. Learn to heed the advice of stern, fictional nutritionists. If you see any of these dishes, please alert the authorities. Now, the good news: laboratory tests prove thatThe Gallery of Regrettable FoodAMUSES as well as informs. Four out of five doctors recommend this book for its GENEROUS PORTIONS OF HILARITY and ghastly pictures from RETRO COOKBOOKS. You too will look at these products of post-war cuisine and ask: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?" It's an affectionate look at the days when starch ruled, pepper was a dangerous spice, and Stuffed Meat with Meat Sauce was considered health food. Bon appetit! The Gallery of Regrettable Foodis a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes from the Golden Age of Salt and Starch. It's a wonder anyone in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s gained any weight. It isn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared toward a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn't nonnutritious -- no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders, and pink whipped Jell-O desserts, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It's just that the pictures are so hideously unappealing. Author James Lileks has made it his life's work to unearth the worst recipes and food photography from that bygone era and assemble them with hilarious, acerbic commentary: "This is not meat. This is something they scraped out of the air filter from the engines of the Exxon Valdez." It all started when he went home to Fargo and found an ancient recipe book in his mom's cupboard: Specialties of the House, from the North Dakota State Wheat Commission. He never looked back. Now, they're not really recipe books. They're ads for food companies, with every recipe using the company's products, often in unexpected and horrifying ways. There's not a single appetizing dish in the entire collection. The pictures in the book are ghastly -- the Italian dishes look like a surgeon had a sneezing fit during an operation, and the queasy casseroles look like something on which the janitor dumps sawdust. But you have to enjoy the spirit behind the books -- cheerful postwar perfect housewifery, and folks with the guts to undertake such culinary experiments as stuffing cabbage with hamburger, creating the perfect tongue mousse when you have the fellas over for a pregame nosh, or, best of all, baking peppers with a creamy marshmallow sauce. Alas, too many of these dishes bring back scary childhood memories. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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