Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: This Week's Cookbooks

(I'm still gearing up to try my "Automatic Method" of grocery shopping and dinner planning discussed in detail at http://favoritefoodthisweek.blogspot.com/2014/10/various-approaches-to-easier-meal.html ; the first delivery is scheduled after this plan...though you can sorta see the very enticing coupon for the international dinner place on the left...)

I used to use Superfast Foods all the time; if we still love the recipes I need to put it into my Cookbook Hall of Fame on the left. But I have found that our tastes have changed -- also, I used that cookbook when we lived in a subtropical country, so produce could be ever so delicious! Note that though it's useful to me, Cook Vegetarian's annual 365 Veggie Recipes was not really what I expected -- rather than arranged by season, let alone day of the year, it's just a reprint of articles -- though I made my own index of which articles had mostly so-and-so season recipes...

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!