Money-Saving Main Dishes is a 1966 booklet published by the United States Department of Agriculture. At forty-six pages it’s more than a pamphlet but not quite an honest cookbook, and contains around a hundred and fifty recipes. The booklet is printed on sturdy white paper with royal blue ink and no cover. There are no…
Tag: 1960s
Vintage Cookbook Review: Myra Waldo’s Chinese Cookbook (1968)
I came by my copy of Myra Waldo’s Chinese Cookbook (1968) at a little antique store in Sherwood, Oregon. There was a tiny book section tucked in the back of the store with no real rhyme or reason to it. There certainly wasn’t a cookbook section, but the overall selection was refreshingly eclectic. I picked…
Cookbook Review: Mexican Recipes (1967)
Mexican Recipes is a slim, sixty-page paperback recipe book published in 1967. It was offered by mail order in newspapers an magazines across the American West in the late 1960s by the now defunct Spanish American Publications. It is printed in glorious black and white and peppered with themed clip art and a few hand…
The Hotpoint Storybook Kitchen Cookbook (1964)
At first glance, The Hotpoint Storybook Kitchen Cookbook (1964) looks like some sort of pulpy potboiler: candlelit dinner, table dressed with a beautiful rib roast, and a woman in a slinky black dress whose motives aren’t quite clear. Add to that the format: a tiny, yellowing paperback with the retail price (60 ¢) prominently featured….