The Electric Soup Kitchen
From 1940: a gimmick to sell soup in soda fountains, luncheonettes, and tea rooms.
Taco Bell lawsuit
It turns out that Taco Bell’s “seasoned beef” is eighty-eight percent beef.
“Taste worth dying for!”
The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, seems like an outtake from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
Domestic comedy
On the diagonal
“A DONUT IS ALL THIS”
1943 infographic from the Donut Corp. of America
The lobster, considered
Do lobsters feel pain?
A Marilyn Monroe recipe
For stuffing
Hitting the sauce
Spaghetti sauce recipe
"THIS IS FUN"
1940s ad for mystery fun-producing food
Coming soon: fun
A 1940s ad for a food that means fun. Can you guess what it is?
Emily Dickinson's gingerbread cake
A poet's recipe
The Thomas' code
The secret of nooks and crannies, in peril
Selling salt
On processed foods and a supposedly intractable taste
Domestic comedy
Re: fancy-pants cereal
End of the U.S. sardine industry
The last cannery closes.
Fortune cookie
Failed prophecy
In Julia Child's kitchen
Julia Child's kitchen is in our kitchen!
Roger Ebert, "Nil by mouth"
Roger Ebert on being unable to eat, drink, speak
Sweetzels Spiced Wafers
"Spiced Wafers are like emotionally-complicated ginger snaps — darker, moodier, more intense."
The parsnip
“Hail to thee, blithe parsnip!”
George Clooney and yogurt
Not all George Clooneys are George Clooney, not all probiotics are the same
Julie & Julia & Russ
On real-life friction between Julie Powell and Julia Child
Cooking and television
Michael Pollan on the meaning of food television
102 salads
101 from the New York Times, one from me
Little sponges
From the back of the Cheerios box
Brain food!
Cracker Jack in the shape of a brain
Florida Citrus responds
The Florida Department of Citrus has responded to Alissa Hamilton's book Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice: "The basic principle of orange juice processing is similar to how you make orange juice at home."
Review: Squeezed, the orange juice book
Review of Alissa Hamilton's Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
A Winston Churchill breakfast
"1st Tray. Poached egg, Toast, Jam, Butter, Coffee and milk, Jug of cold milk, Cold Chicken or Meat. 2nd Tray. Grapefruit, Sugar Bowl, Glass orange squash (ice), Whisky soda. Wash hands, cigar."
Orange juice book
Excerpt from a book by Alissa Hamilton