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Author Lileks, James.

Title The gallery of regrettable food / James Lileks.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2001.
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 C Brugha St Lending  641.50207 LIL    AVAILABLE
ISBN 0609607820
9780609607824
Description 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Contents It's 10 p.m. : do you know where your wieners are? -- What's black and white and dead all over? -- Cooking with 7UP -- The A.1 guide to better sex -- Moldorama -- Big boys don't fry : the sexual politics of grilling -- Let's have an old-fashioned blur-b-que -- Glop in a pot -- Sic transit gloria iturbi -- Horrors from the briny deep -- Direct from foreign shores -- Volume 10 : HOT-LAN -- It's the 1950s and everyone's human but Mom -- Jell-o ignores the difficult '60s -- Jell-o : the groovy '70s -- Submit to the power of ketchup -- Famous chefs forced to use marshmallows -- Meat! meat! meat! -- Mr. Peanut, chef of chefs -- Poultry for the glum -- So you're going to serve a salad -- Aunt Jenny explains it all -- Swanson's parade of lost identity -- All the smart people eat toast -- Even fictional people need vitamins - Eat brains and whip Hitler -- Specialties of the house.
Summary A collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
Subject Cooing -- History
Cooking -- Humor.