The idea behind these food in movies posts isn’t really to review the film, so much as look at the role food plays in the movie. With that being said, I can just go ahead and get this out of the way — Flakes isn’t a very good movie. The food they eat in the […]

Creative Cooking Made Easy: The Golden Fluffo Cookbook was published in 1956 by the Procter & Gamble Company, in collaboration with Seranne & Gaden, the food consulting company run by the two women who quietly shaped midcentury American cooking. It’s a handsome little book, spiral-bound for easy use in the kitchen, decorated with Eileen Gaden’s […]

Here’s something you may not know about cooking — when it first started, the comic strip Cathy was really pretty good. Cathy Guisewite’s eponymous strip premiered in 1976, delving immediately into its constant themes of guilt and insecurity, themes that were very much on the mind of a nation that was still reeling from the […]

1961’s The Blender Cookbook comes with a surprisingly high pedigree. Written by Ann Seranne and Eileen Gaden, both former editors at Gourmet and both, in their ways, innovators in food science. The pair ran the New York food consulting company Seranne & Gaden, and between them authored dozens of cookbooks. In her 1988 obituary in […]

Among my collection of vintage cookbooks is a 1953 Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, which contains some nifty mid-century graphics, and this – possibly the least appealing recipe I’ve ever encountered – liver sausage pineapple. First off, the only circumstances under which those three words should ever appear in that particular order is if it’s […]