One of my favorite illustrators, Franklin Booth, and a box of chocolates — what could be better?
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Franklin Booth for Chocolate
Posted in Advertising, Art, Food on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Pickles
Posted in Art, Food on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Images from a Ball Brothers “Blue Book” guide to canning, with recipes.
Once Tasted, Never Forgotten
Posted in Advertising, Art, Food on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Fascinated by this label, I learned that one can still find a soft drink made from dandelion and burdock, apparently a variation on an ancient “hedgerow mead” recipe, by Fentimans, a botanical brewery based in Hexham, Northumberland, England. In its praise, they write: “Full-strength infusions of Dandelion leaves and Burdock root, sweetened with pear juice [...]
Morning PEP
Posted in Advertising, Art, Food on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From the April 1926 issue of The American Magazine
Nara Menu
Posted in Art, Food, Japan on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And while I’m obsessing about Nara, here’s the cover of a dinner menu from a Japanese ocean liner circa 1934, picturing the five-story pagoda seen across Sarusawa Pond, the original pagoda built in 730 AD, the present one a replica built in 1429 AD. And here are two more views of the pagoda:
Celery Grove
Posted in Art, Food, Photography on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My thanks to Anuschka Rees and her “IntoMind” blog for the food landscapes of Carl Warner.
Lemon Pie and the Law of the Fang
Posted in Food, Literature on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“We ate fish nearly every day: bonito, dolphin, sierra, red snappers. We made thousands of big fat biscuits, hot and unhealthful. Twice a week Sparky created his magnificent spaghetti. Unbelievable amounts of coffee were consumed. One of our party made some lemon pies, but the quarreling grew bitter over them; the thievery, the suspicion of [...]
An Interesting Corner
Posted in Advertising, Art, Food on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Food Surprises from the Mirro Test Kitchen,” published by Mirro Aluminum, no date, no credits for illustrator; “Good Things to Eat” by Church & Dwight, 1924, illustrator may be C.E. Frederic; “New Magic in the Kitchen” by the Borden Co., no date, with illustrations by Merritt Cutler, a well-known advertising illustrator in his day. My [...]
Tea with Grace
Posted in Art, Food, Tea on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A drawing by Grace Gebbie Wiederseim Drayton (1877-1936) from her book Kiddie Land (1910). Mrs. Drayton is best remembered as the creator of the Campbell Kids; her first art for a Campbell’s Soup print ad was published in 1904.
The Chilling Unit
Posted in Advertising, Art, Food on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– From Electric Refrigerator Menus and Recipes: Recipes prepared especially for the General Electric Refrigerator (1927) by Miss Alice Bradley, from the collection of Laurie Winship
