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⚙️ Table Talk #95: Friendly Fish in a Sleeping Bag 🐠

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TABLE TALK #95

Today, we’re talking about weird old food.

The kind that reminds us quite how much food fashion has changed, yet makes us feel oddly, but wonderfully, nostalgic.

Get hungry for some friendly fish in a sleeping bag.

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The internet, for all its drawbacks, is a gold mine for weird and wonderful fan pages.

Last week we discovered Weird Old Food - a collation and celebration of vintage recipes - and safe to say it’s our new favourite feed to follow. 

We hadn’t realised our lives were missing the recipe for Pink Poodle Cake, Baby Papaya Birds or Green Salad Jelly but missing they were. 

For a day trip down memory lane you couldn’t do better. The feed is a smorgasbord of nostalgia and the photos and comments can’t fail to make you laugh. “Babe is everything ok, you’ve barely touched your Friendly Fish in a Sleeping Bag?” case and point.

 

Friendly Fish in a Sleeping Bag 
Photo Credit: Pillsbury Family Fun Cookbook, 1983

It's not only nostalgic joy we can take from vintage cookbooks however.

For starters there's something gloriously anthropological about them: pick up a battered and much loved cookbook from the 1960's and what you’re getting is not just a set of recipes, it’s a little taster of the culture, time and place that it was published. Rustling up a recipe from an old cookbook is as much a cooking class as a history class.

For seconds, there’s a wonderful learning opportunity in them: vintage cookbooks will often take you back to the basics. They’ll teach you how to make mayonnaise from scratch, how to cream butter and sugar by hand and so on and so forth.

While the internet and social media give us food blogs, inspiration and novelty on tap, there’s something reassuring about a recipe that’s been passed down from generation to generation.

So here's to Squid Boats on Cabbage Beds and the joy of food through all the ages.

Pink Poodle Cake 
Photo Credit: Animals in Frosting, 1974

The internet, for all its drawbacks, is a gold mine for weird and wonderful fan pages.

Last week we discovered Weird Old Food - a collation and celebration of vintage recipes - and safe to say it’s our new favourite feed to follow. 

We hadn’t realised our lives were missing the recipe for Pink Poodle Cake, Baby Papaya Birds or Green Salad Jelly but missing they were. 

For a day trip down memory lane you couldn’t do better. The feed is a smorgasbord of nostalgia and the photos and comments can’t fail to make you laugh. “Babe is everything ok, you’ve barely touched your Friendly Fish in a Sleeping Bag?” case and point.


🍮 SWEET ENDINGS 🍮
This week we've been reading about 'grocery girl aesthetic' a new trend that sees our favourite foods and drinks making it on to the clothes that we wear. Think shrimp earrings, fruity charm bracelets and aperol-spritz dresses. The pursuit of looking delicious just got literal.
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We fessed up a little while back and admitted that our limited edition Summer Cuvée was a glorious accident that took even us by surprise.

What's surprised us even more so is quite how much all of you and the press have got behind this launch, and fallen in love with our new wine.

We're big fans of the Stylist Loves roundups, so it's fantastic to see Summer Cuvée standing proud in so much great company in this 9 of the best roundup. 

Until next Wednesday,

Luke x

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