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The Gallery of Regrettable Food (Hardcover)

by James Lileks (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Publications; 1 edition (27 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0609607820
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609607824
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 19.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71,372 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A collection of photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from classic American cookbooks of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s presents an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Far too funny for a book about food, 3 April 2002
By C. J. Richardson "foop" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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James Lileks was inspired and unsettled by the discovery of his mother's unused cookbooks from the 1950s. The Gallery of Regrettable food is a hilarious trawl through those books and the now improbable dishes they attempt to encourage you to cook.

As someone who escaped life in the 50s by a couple of decades, I'm utterly amazed by the food he showcases. How can they have expected people to be eat that stuff? Lilek's commentary is almost unbearably funny, but there are also occasional moments of social history. Was life in the 50s really like this? Was the highlight of your culinary experience really radishes and assorted salad items encased in cherry flavoured jelly? How could people stand it?

Buy this book and be hugely entertained. It's now sitting in our bathroom - there can be no higher praise. I'm waiting for his forthcoming book on 1970s interior decoration.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Way We Ate, 13 Feb 2004
By takingadayoff "takingadayoff" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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The Gallery of Regrettable Food brought back fond memories, made me laugh out loud, and was truly disgusting.

Everything about this book, down to the boomerang patterns on the cover (under the dust jacket), says Boomer Childhood. About the only thing missing from Gallery is Velveeta and Sloppy Joes. I loved the chapter on Jell-O, and was amazed at what people thought to suspend in a Jell-O mold. Ecch.

And those hard-boiled egg and sliced olive penguins! Lileks makes up just enough in here so that you have to seriously consider whether a dish is real or if he made it up. Unfortunately, he only made up a few.

This is a great book to spend a few hours with, especially if you are on a diet. Nothing to tempt you here. It brings back the days when a meal wasn't a meal if there wasn't meat in it, when meat wasn't meat unless it had a layer of fat on it, and when nothing said "sophisticated" like a can of salmon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars James Lileks - need I say more?, 18 Aug 2006
By Bibliomaniac (Somewhere in England) - See all my reviews
If you're looking at this page, you probably know James Lileks and his wonderful website. And you're probably familiar with The Gallery of Regrettable Food. And you've probably already seen a lot of what's in this book, and fallen about laughing over it.

So what more can I say? Buy the book, keep it, cherish it. It's your own little Gallery of Regrettable Food that you can open any time, even if you're not near a computer. Just think... your own personal Gallery of Regrettable Food, that you can hug to your heart. And of course, you're helping to support the wonderful Lileks himself, so he'll be encouraged to give us more.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a recipe book
There are no recipes in this book, it's just a collection of bad photos of food from recipe books of the fifties, with some amusing comments from the author.
Published on 22 Jun 2004

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