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Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
Crown
December 2007
On Sale: November 27, 2007
176 pages
ISBN: 0307383075
EAN: 9780307383075
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
It was a time of innocence, nuclear families, traditional
values . . . and BAD FOOD. In an era where cooks wanted to put their best foot forward,
there was no end to the creative, cost-efficient, and
cream-based dishes that disgraced the family dinner table,
the cocktail party, or the neighborhood BBQ. Recipes
involving ingredients like ground meat, bananas, and cottage
cheese sound innocent enough—unless you mix them all
together in a strange attempt to cover every food group at once. In Gastroanomalies, James Lileks gathers another remarkable
assortment of dishes that once inspired cooks to brave new
heights but now inspire sour stomachs and thoughts of “how
did I survive?” Highlighted with excerpts from bizarre
cookbooks (like Joan Crawford shilling for Bisquick),
dubious images (is it meat or chocolate ice cream?), ads
heralding the latest in kitchen technology (how about a
bacon-egger?), and Lileks’s acerbic, off-the-wall commentary
(“Put your ear close, and you can actually hear the meat
screaming in terror”), Gastroanomalies is an irresistible
retro documentation of a bygone era when artisanal cheese
and vegetables lightly steamed (not boiled to mush) were
still light-years away. Gastroanomalies will have foodies,
baby boomers, and lovers of kitsch in stitches.
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