Food of the Fifties

I just came across this website and thought I'd share. Prolific 1950s cookbook author Ruth Chier Rosen sells new-old-stock copies of her books that have been in storage for decades. Some of the titles:
"Have Cookbook Will Marry" circa 1957
"Pardon My Foie Gras" circa 1956
"A Guide to Pink Elephants" Vol 1 circa 1952 and Vo 2 circa 1957 (cocktail recipes)
...and the list goes on. I find her style amusing and interesting. Maybe you will, too!

Food of the Fifties

No one I personally knew in the 1950s used a cookbook, although they assuredly used handed-down recipes. If there had been such a thing like this forum, they would have been writing about cooking the same way people were cooking in the 1920s on things that were new then. But I have no idea what things would have been all the rage in the 20s.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, everyone whose table I ever sat at ate practically the same things and much of that came from their own gardens. Yet, strange as it may seem, everyone's basic dishes (and believe me, they were all basic) tasted different at different houses. Not wildly so but different just the same.