A lot of old recipe books have a section at the back featuring something like miscellaneous tips and tricks, and I found the following in a book from 1912, when cars would have still been unusual: A ten-cent megaphone is … Continue reading →

I like flambe recipes because they are, after all, about setting food on fire when presenting it to the diners. Who wouldn’t love the combination of drama and danger involved in that? Fanny Farmer’s New Book of Cookery, from 1921, … Continue reading →