Monday, Monday, Monday. Means I get to pick a vintage mag issue to peruse and share. Tough choice…a picnic, a salmon mold, or blueberry pie and that’s without even going in to the stacks. July just says blueberries and that pie looks good! Well, on the East Coast July says blueberries, but from what I [...]
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Gourmet Monday – July 1956
Posted in Edibles-Fruit, Gourmet Magazines, Recipe, tagged Blueberry Hedge, Blueberry Pie Filling, blueberry varieties, Gourmet Magazine, Pie Dough on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gourmet Monday – June 1955
Posted in Gourmet Magazines, Recipe on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gourmet Monday on Tuesday, again. And yes, it is a June cover in July, but I just love this one! I love the food trends of the 50′s with their various and sundry images of molded food. Can you even imagine this amazing wedding cake? A frozen “bombe fleurs d’oranger” a shell of orange ice [...]
Gourmet Monday – June 1959
Posted in Edible-Herbes, Gourmet Magazines, Recipe, tagged fines herbes, herbes de provence, Louis Diat, vintage gourmet magazines on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another installment of the Gourmet Monday post…summer schedule, so this is going up on Tuesday. Funny how my potting bench looks very similar to this one, less the ship in a bottle. We have been planting seeds almost daily, and the seed packets on the cover remind me that I need to dry [...]
Chef Louis Diat on Spring Vegetables
Posted in Edible-Vegetables, Gourmet Magazines, Recipe, tagged farming, spring vegetables, vichyssoise, Vintage 1956 Gourmet on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More late night lite reading in the June 1956 Gourmet. I enjoyed an article about spring vegetables by the Inventor of Vichyssoise. These old magazines are so intriguing! And in many ways completely relevant to the current food revolution going on right now. Louis Diat is cluing in the reader to the esteem in which [...]
Growing Blackberries
Posted in Edibles-Fruit, Farmers Market, Gourmet Magazines, Recipe, tagged blackberries, cheese course, growing berries, raspberries, Vintage 1956 Gourmet on June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every other plot at the community garden, has a stand of blackberries that makes me green with envy! I am going to satisfy my desire for berries however, with Marion Berries in my own back yard. Curling up yesterday with the 1956 issue of Gourmet and all it’s fruits of summer poetry, lore and ruminations, [...]
