A friend from the Bellingham, Washington sent me this gem of a website, http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/spec.html. It contains excerpts from a book called the "Gallery of Regrettable Food". The author, James Lileks has compiled a truly exhaustive collection of vintage meat, vegetable, and jello illustrations (such as the one pictured above) from antique cook books. For the main course try Meat!, Meat!, Meat!. Go for a side dish with the Unbearable Sadness of Vegetables. And when you're ready for dessert, why not try some Jello? This site is chock full of food nostalgia and twisted humor. It reminds me of being a kid and looking through all my Mom's New York Times Cookbooks from the 1970's, only scarier. I was always so fascinated by those Jello molds...
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