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To: Liz

It does look very good.


92 posted on 04/16/2016 8:07:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

BTW, since the original thread was about cookbooks, I decided to go to Ebay and buy some old Gourmet magazines from the 60s and 70s. As my usual bedtime reading, these turned out to be superlative! So much more intellectual and stimulating than the dumbed-down picture-oriented zines of today. While there is a kind of fun pomposity to some of the writing, it reminded me that the old Gourmet was much more a travel magazine than a food magazine. And a history magazine. It had a long piece on Colonial foods and cooking that was interesting and a sad and ironic piece on the glories of Haiti: filled with French aristocrats and ambassadors swanning around the mountains and hanging with Papa Doc! How wonderfully politically-incorrect was the old America.


97 posted on 04/17/2016 4:16:37 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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