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Learn to COOK - Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night (Retro Series)
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List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Collectors Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.52
EAN: 9781888054873
ISBN: 1888054875
Label: Collectors Press
Manufacturer: Collectors Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2004-04
Publisher: Collectors Press
Studio: Collectors Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Rise and shine, it’s breakfast time! If you think the smell of bacon and hot coffee wafting from a warm kitchen is a thing of the past, then bring back the bounty of breakfast with RETRO BREAKFAST: MEMORABLE MEALS MORNING, NOON, OR NIGHT. From the coffee-stained pages of classic American cookbooks to recipes handed down from memory, Linda Everett and Richard Perry bring us the best of breakfast from rural Washington State to down-home Alabama. More than 120 recipes capture classic tastes of the most important meal of the day, including Okanogan Omelet, Lulu’s Café Home Fries, Castlerock Blueberry Griddle Cakes, and Southern Exposure Sweet Potato Biscuits. Featuring nostalgic images that will encourage you to wake up and eat no matter what time of day, this Retro guide is sure to make anyone an early riser.
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Summary: Great Fun!
Comment: Sure you could get these recipes off the net - but for those that love books - the graphics add quite a bit of fun! Great for a housewarming present (in combo with some of the other "Retro-" books from this series!
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Summary: Retro Breakfast: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon, or Night
Comment: This a is great and fun recipe book if you like breakfast food, however if you love retro and breakfast you will love it, I do.
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Summary: It's the most important book of the day
Comment: As easy a target as the classic morning meals in this book can be, what I enjoyed most about "Retro Breakfast" is that the recipes were presented without much comment on the editors' part. So many books of this sort (James Lileks' "Gallery of Regrettable Food" or "Interior Desecrations," notably) are larded to the point of bursting with ironic asides, arch giggles, and conspiratorial winks to the reader to acknowledge that we sure are cooler *now* than those people were back *then.*
Mercifully, here we just got a bunch of old-timey (like, 1950s-70s) recipes, mixed in with the "Retro..." series' signature period artwork, fonts, and colorful presentation. We can add our own hipster swagger if we want while we offer up some of "Mother's Cinnamon Flop" (p. 94) or "Sunday Mornin' Hotcakes" (p. 114). But even if we don't, we'll still wind up with what on the whole look like some pretty appetizing starts to the day.
The phrase "look like" does remind me, though, of one disappointing fact: the illustrations that accompany given recipes don't always seem to be illustrations *of* the given recipe. It's hard to tell sometimes if we're looking at the actual dish, or just something similar from the archive.
Some of us were fortunate enough to have enjoyed breakfasts like this with our Saturday morning cartoons, back in the good old days, and it's a nice stroll through our memories to have them available to us again. And even if we never get around to making any of these things, the book itself is a great retro reference to have around.
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