Welcome to A Retro Kitchen!: 2024

Just in case...

Um, it seems RUSSIA has started hacking my very harmless sites! So you might want to save what you wish (it's free to you) and if you ever find any of my sites look off (it's ridiculously obvious), just quit your browser immediately and erase any bookmarker so you don't accidentally return. So sorry! I thought Blogger took care of its bloggers! I will be checking and will simply delete any site that gets affected. Anyway I've been busy living a lovely life and have been so reticent to add to any online din so have seldom posted for a while, though this was always my favorite site!

A lovely retro kitchen from a lovely book and magazine

Here is a kitchen in New Orleans (the glare is from my lamp, sorry), from the Rizzoli book Bohemian Soul: The Vanishing Interiors of New Orleans,

adapted for a wonderful article in the March-April 2024 issue of The Magazine Antiques, https://www.themagazineantiques.com/ , whose cover featured the same home. I was so saddened to hear of its wonderful editor's recent passing, what a loss to us.

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!