Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: This Week's (Not) Cookbooks

As I mention at my short-ish-term site http://walkingtocivilization.blogspot.com/2014/12/making-holidays-brightand-easy.html , because of the many things going on in our lives, including prep for a long move sometime next year! to a place with REAL RESTAURANTS and REAL FOOD SHOPS!!!!!! -- because we're just so busy with that, I've decided to order in lots of not convenience foods really, but lots of pre-chopped vegetables, ingredients already gathered for things like a sausage-roasted vegetable dinner, and well these are super convenient: amazing little cherry pies from a company called Tiny Pies that delivers your pies frozen, ready to pop into the oven when you're ready; they deliver at least here, I'm not sure where else: http://www.tinypies.com/ . Oh, what a darling storefront they have!

Happy days to everyone. Here's a retro holiday ad for you...

You'll find old and new ideas on this site...

I love playing with both food and history and am trying to combine these loves here and in various projects. My most recently published was a fun 3-volume set, which you can get free below, which speaks much of cuisine in a little known part of the world from earliest times to 700 CE....Speaking of old, this is a reincarnation of three old blogs, one shared with friends all over the world and called something like Our Favorite Food This Week, and then one called That Was Delicious that started my toying with retro food ideas, and then A History Writer in the Kitchen where I explored history more....I have kept many posts from those blogs, including many recipes I thought you might like.

Enjoy!