Title: Gastroanomalies : questionable culinary creations from the golden age of American cookery /
Authors: Lileks, James.
Publisher: Crown,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Cooking; Cooking Humor
Abstract: Presents photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s with commentary on an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
Contents: Introduction -- Begin the day with chicken fetuses and pig slices -- Get off to a distasteful start with appetizers -- The wonderful world of aspics -- How to drive off your husband with lousy cooking -- Chunder from down under -- Fun things to make with ground-up cow -- All hail the miraculous magic cold box -- Meals like Grandma used to make. Sadly -- Fill your internal organs with meat! meat! meat! -- From the cookbook library -- End on a (sickeningly) sweet note.