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Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery

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It was a time of innocence, nuclear families, traditional values . . . and BAD FOOD.

In an era where cooks wanted to put their best foot forward, there was no end to the creative, cost-efficient, and cream-based dishes that disgraced the family dinner table, the cocktail party, or the neighborhood BBQ. Recipes involving ingredients like ground meat, bananas, and cottage cheese sound innocent enough—unless you mix them all together in a strange attempt to cover every food group at once.

In Gastroanomalies, James Lileks gathers another remarkable assortment of dishes that once inspired cooks to brave new heights but now inspire sour stomachs and thoughts of “how did I survive?” Highlighted with excerpts from bizarre cookbooks (like Joan Crawford shilling for Bisquick), dubious images (is it meat or chocolate ice cream?), ads heralding the latest in kitchen technology (how about a bacon-egger?), and Lileks’s acerbic, off-the-wall commentary (“Put your ear close, and you can actually hear the meat screaming in terror”), Gastroanomalies is an irresistible retro documentation of a bygone era when artisanal cheese and vegetables lightly steamed (not boiled to mush) were still light-years away. Gastroanomalies will have foodies, baby boomers, and lovers of kitsch in stitches.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.50207
EAN: 9780307383075
ISBN: 0307383075
Label: Crown
Manufacturer: Crown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: 2007-11-27
Studio: Crown


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: A POET'S EAR FOR LANGUAGE
Comment: Lileks's flights of imaginative language are laugh out loud comic and at its best a 'poetry of disgust'. His ear and imagination are so exquisitely refined, he makes most modern poets look like hacks and wannabes. The emotional intensity doesn't let up. But there is more than 'disgust'. What makes his descriptions really soar is underneath it all he loves these outcast pariahs of the kitchen, the gastronomic damned.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another gem by Lileks
Comment: I have all Lileks' books and this one is another little piece of genius. I can't wait for the next one. Make it soon, Mr. Lileks, please!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gastroanomalies
Comment:
Overweight? Contemplating costly, possibly painful surgical procedures?
Wait! Consider the James Lileks food aversion technique. After reading
GASTROANOMALIES and it's companion volume GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOODS you'll find yourself saying things like..."No thanks. No, really. I couldn't eat another bite."


Customer Rating:
Summary: What is that on your Plate?
Comment: If you have ever looked at your mom's old cookbooks and thought to your self - "what is that? and why would you eat it?" - this is the book for you. Mr. Lileks has found a way to make meatloaf "laugh out loud" funny. He really has a way of making even the most common things hilarious. I bought it for my sister who is a chef. She thought it was a scream!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Okay
Comment: Mildly amusing. It's easy to write satire about things that are of that age -- but in fact most of the food would be pretty good, none of it would be worse than the same sort of stuff published in a thousand magazines published every day -- and I wouldn't mind having one of those pink refrigerators. (Warning: I actually own a pink electric stove of the early 60's. It's great.)

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