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 […]