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Friday, August 05, 2005
Historic American Cookbooks
Click the picture above to visit an online archive of historic American cookbooks. There is a very cool visual glossary of antique kitchen implements.
Find out what a whipchum is used for or what a piggin is. It's edutaining.
Jim Lileks is pretty damn funny when not talking politics, I especially love the 'Interior Desecrations' section. I have wasted many hours laughing at the 70s craptacularness of some of those rooms, you'll probably remember a lot of that stuff from your childhood ; )
as a fellow owner of Interior Desecrations, I give it three thumbs up. It reminds me of a Residential Planning course (basic architectural drafting) in High School in which our text book had been published in the height of Partidge-Family-Suck interior design, containing all manner of intense 3-4' wide vertical stripes, metallic wallpaper, plaid ad infinitum, and surreal kids rooms from another time.
5 comments:
for the "lighter side" of cooking....
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
or, for the copy/paste impaired...
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
Thanks metahiptster. I have often heard of Lileks food related writing. I read his column in the Star Tribune from time to time.
Jim Lileks is pretty damn funny when not talking politics, I especially love the 'Interior Desecrations' section. I have wasted many hours laughing at the 70s craptacularness of some of those rooms, you'll probably remember a lot of that stuff from your childhood ; )
as a fellow owner of Interior Desecrations, I give it three thumbs up. It reminds me of a Residential Planning course (basic architectural drafting) in High School in which our text book had been published in the height of Partidge-Family-Suck interior design, containing all manner of intense 3-4' wide vertical stripes, metallic wallpaper, plaid ad infinitum, and surreal kids rooms from another time.
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