Better Homes And Gardens Best Buffets Cookbook

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Start your review of Best Buffets: 110 Wonderful Recipes For Entertaining Buffet Style

Dec 06, 2018 Craig Tyler rated it really liked it

This cookbook has some wild ideas of buffet menus. I will certainly be making the Duchess Dogs.

May 31, 2012 Alessandra rated it did not like it

Another blast from the Kennedy era, this cookbook is a horrific snapshot of middle American food and attitudes in the middle twentieth century.

Solidly in the mayonnaise-and-cream-cheese school of cooking, this book is full of sexist assumptions and awful recipes. "As a rule, men like simple food while women take to 'something different.'" MSG is liberally used, and vegetable dishes are seemingly random assortments (carrots, onions and spinach, layered with loads of margarine and process cheese).

Another blast from the Kennedy era, this cookbook is a horrific snapshot of middle American food and attitudes in the middle twentieth century.

The sight of glass Christmas balls stacked amongst the bread rolls and ice cream triggers nightmares of broken shards in the food.

Every time I pick up one of these cookbooks I wonder if maybe my memory is playing tricks with me. Food back then couldn't possibly have been that bad, could it? Then I read recipes like spiced peaches (canned peaches, vinegar, cinnamon and cloves) with mayonnaise creme (mayonnaise, marshmallow creme, lemon and orange juice) or hamburger corn casserole (loaded with sour cream and MSG), and I think yes, yes it was.

Books like this one are why I look upon Julia Child as a kitchen god.

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