One of my inspirations for starting a retro-themed blog was the gigantic, exploding green binder that lives on a shelf in my parents kitchen. It’s stuffed with a collection of crinkled papers from the past, recipes cut from magazines and newspapers, single leafs torn from tattered cookbooks, the odd school report card or holiday to-do […]
I think I’ve made one million pans of lemon bars. I don’t know quite what it is about them but people who love them reallllly love them and request them often. I love them too except I can really only eat them sparingly after an incident we will just refer to as the back-of-the-car, leftover […]
There’s a common phrase that goes “cooking is an art, baking is a science.” I take issue with this. I understand that people more closely associate baking with science because there are perhaps more obvious and exacting chemical reactions (leavening, to name a big one) but flavor itself is a result of chemical reactions between […]
One of the best sources I use for finding retro recipe inspiration is from vintage brand advertisements. And, since I (tragically) don’t possess an endless personal library of such material, I often turn to the internet for resource. Nine times out of ten I end up on Pinterest. I never really valued the site much […]
I’m not sure there exists another baked good that incites the same kind of pavlovian reaction as the Madeleine. If a Madeleine recipe does not in some way, shape or form pay homage to Proust then, I ask, is it even a Madeleine recipe? This one, I’m afraid, is no exception. If you don’t know […]
La Retro Recipe 