by James Lileks
Dakota County Library hardcover 192 pages
Published: 2001
Genre: humor, cookbooks
Lileks has a sense of humor that appeals to me, but not my husband. When our friend Steve recommended this book, I was eager to get it and be entertained. Lileks credits the Welcome Wagon in Fargo for giving his mother a cookbook in 1962 that he unearthed (untouched) in the 1990s. He found several more cookbooks from the 1960s and preceding decades to poke fun at.
The pictures are hilarious, as is his commentary on them. "Liberties Taken with Peas," "Random Meats," and "Salty Salts" are some of the cover's enticements to see what's in store.
This is actually kind of like a sociology book . . . it certainly highlights an era in America!
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