Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: Beautifully Eating Beautiful

Wendy Rowe has a beautiful approach of not prescribing in her book Eat Beautiful, as she says in this month's Allure magazine:

It's not a diet. It's not a regimen....People should just take what they want from it. My Date Energy Bites and No-Cook Walnut Brownies are always popular.

I always enjoy old cookbooks for their historical value and just generally being fascinating, but I must admit I get tired of those that push a certain health approach.

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!