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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
by: James Lileks

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.50207
EAN: 9780609607824
ISBN: 0609607820
Label: Crown Publications
Manufacturer: Crown Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: August 27, 2001
Publisher: Crown Publications
Studio: Crown Publications
Sales Rank: 376726

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- James Lileks - need I say more?
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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- 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.

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- The Way We Ate
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 ... Read More:

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- Far too funny for a book about food
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?

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