At the Mid-Century Menu blog, you can find such vintage classics and Polynesian Fishsticks and Hawaiian Frankobobs, prepared from vintage cookbooks such as that Carnation’s Easy-Does-It Cookbooks. Published as part of “No Pattern Required,” written by a group of mid-century American culture…
Sharing Family Secrets
The Pot Luck Club from Feed Me A Story on Vimeo.
“Feed Me a Story” is a transmedia project funded in part by the PBS POV’s “Hackathon,” supporting new developments in documentary production. A socio-cultural exploration of food practices, the filmmakers use intergenerational storytelling to get at questions about the American experience through their stories about food. Is this a new kind of documentary filmmaking? cookbook? both? neither?
The Table My Mother Set
Here’s an excellent story about a self-publishing adventure undertaken by Theresa DeCario, whose “The Table My Mother Set” has won several independent publishing awards. Read more about it here: http://www.timesleaderonline.com/page/content.detail/id/508340.html?nav=5008
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest
In 1982, Mollie Katzen was part of the Moosewood Collective in Ithaca, New York. The group founded and ran the famous Moosewood Restaurant, which Bon Apetit magazine named one of the 13 most influential restaurants in the 20th century.