Archive - Zen and the Science of Candy Corn

October 2024

Vintage Recipe Roulette: Rationing-era Halloween Cake

A sticky, batty, and Spry cake from a very different time...or was it?

Oct 28 •

Un-nog-ceptable: We revisit some bogs, nogs, frogs...and princes

I've reviewed a lot of weird foods over the last few years. Were there any keepers?

Oct 20 •

Vintage Recipe Roulette: 1981 Baked Salmon and Corn

Lots of cans and little detail make for a really fishy recipe...from a state that could use a helping hand right now.

Oct 13 •

September 2024

Vintage Recipe Roulette: "Sunday Night Quickie" from a Florida bank's 1981 employee cookbook

The question of which came first is dwarfed by the question of why chicken soup and scrambled eggs are in the same sentence in the first place

Sep 30 •

Vintage Recipe Roulette: "1981" Pineapple Casserole

Those quotation marks are actually properly rendered, but is the casserole?

Sep 22 •

Vintage Recipe Roulette: 1960s Kool-Aid Pie's Grape of Wrath

And, why "grape" doesn't taste like grape, but does make a great bird repellent

Sep 15 •

Vintage cookbook palooza!

The overriding theme? If it ain't frozen, don't fix it

Sep 1 •

August 2024

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