How old fashioned a notion about a woman’s worth, but once it was seen as a fact sanctioned by society and accepted by some women themselves. I see the tangible expressions of that axiom on the…
Category: food
Antique bread maker leads to black inventor
Posted in Black history, food, and Kitchen
The metal pot with the army green patina looked like a thicker version of an Asian wok there on the auction table. I slid off the lid and saw a jumble of heavy metal parts inside.…
I spotted the nondescript flip-over chalkboard placard first. It resembled so many I had seen outside New York restaurants advertising their menus, and most times, they faded into the sidewalk. This one was a bit…
Grocery coupons from the 1960s
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and food
I did a double-take when I saw the stack of coupons on a tray in a glass case at the auction house. No, I thought to myself, they couldn’t be auctioning old product coupons. But…
Hand crank ice cream maker
Posted in food
A few years ago, I read a newspaper article recommending the best electric ice cream makers. It was a cute little Cusinart that also made yogurt and sherberts. I just had to have one. I…
The colors on the posters were so inviting that I wanted to pick up that chocolate milkshake, stick a straw in it and suck out the chilly treat. Even as cardboard cutouts, the food…
A couple years ago, on the last day of a trip to a garlic festival with friends in upstate New York, we stopped at a Goodwill (or maybe it was a Salvation Army) to see…
I was reading the food section of my local newspaper recently and came across a story about retro food. A restaurateur was offering what the article called golden oldies, dishes from the 1961 “New York Times…
Flea market finds & fresh strawberries
Posted in collectibles, flea market, food, and Glassware
I was at a flea market last weekend and got into a conversation with a man who sets up at a flea market a distance from where I live. He has been selling as a vendor…
The lost art of cookbook advertising pamphlets
Posted in Books, collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and food
Last week, I wrote about the lithographs on needle packs. They were executed so well that some of them were like works of art. This week, as I was going through my trove of ephemera…