Video Essay:🥫 Collecting Vintage Cookbooks!

I do this lecture about How To Enjoy Antique Food and the Life of a Deco Housewife

Prune Whip. Candlestick Salad. Larded Grouse. Come Taste the Era!

When the Art Deco Society invited me to re-launch my historic (I created it in 2006) historic cookbook lecture this year, I couldn’t wait to fluff it up for the small screen. Powerpoint had just been invented back then, and I was able to take the original slides and mix them with fresh images and some fun Zoom effects to create a fresh, delicious new video essay with 90% great production values. Virtues of Vintage Cookbooks: Fashionable Food for Deco Dining was a big hit!

Here’s a teaser:

Supporting subscribers (a.k.a. my “Inner Circle”) can enjoy the full show, below PLUS a free download of Deconstructing the Deco Diet, my first published article, which swept me off into my first 15 minutes of fame.

[You can also watch it for a $5 suggested donation at the link on my website.]

“I've learned so much. This was fantastic! —Karie Bible, Hollywood Kitchen Show

“This was incredible, thank you.” —Serafina Miller, President, Art Deco Society of California

“I appreciated the information around the contribution that African Americans made towards the cookbook world, and some of the exploitations of things that we all sort of took for granted about that time.” —Angela Grimes, host

What’s your favorite vintage cookbook/pamphlet/recipe/throwback show?