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Discovered by Russell Jones and covered on his blog, Balanced Recipes by Pillsbury is a vintage 1933 recipe book. Made from stamped aluminum, recipes could be protected from the elements or small bomb attacks.
Great for those who take their recipes seriously — even if it’s for something called Thimble Anchovy Biscuits.
Dead figs, psychedelic milk, and racist cupcakes… It’s Foodiggity’s week that was.
Teach your kids the alphabet with adorable vegicide… Alphadeath
Making fun of foodies, 365… The Onion’s 2011 Food & Dining Calendar
Barbie goes Gaga… Meat Dress Barbie
This should end well… The Robot Butcher
But it’s a dry heat… This Is Now The World’s Hottest Pepper
Turn Your Glass of Milk Into an Allman Brothers Concert
What’s in your gullet?… Pezidents of The United States
x = pb + j… The Peanut Butter and Jelly Equation
Once again, sorry Japan… Fast Food Sushi
CHOW kicks it old school… The Last Kodachrome Christmas
Reek of holiday spirit… Eggnog Soap
Prejudice, or just painfully unhip?… Racist Cupcakes
CHOW recently presented a tribute to American cuisine past and antiquated mediums with The Last Kodachrome Christmas. The photo shoot is inspired by vintage food photography, and uses actual Kodachrome — a type of film long assumed extinct, but rather just in its late stage death throes.
Often associated with boring vacation slides and brilliantly oversaturated imagery, one might ask why CHOW would even use Kodachrome. Well, the answer can be summed up by a simple philosophy that we stick to here at Foodiggity… food ephemera kicks ass.
Continue reading “CHOW Kicks It Old School with The Last Kodachrome Christmas”
Banana-wear, robot baristas, and minimalism… Foodiggity’s week that was.
A handy guide… How We Can Tell If Martha Stewart Is Drunk
A sign of the times… Campbell’s Soup Cans As American Flag
Smell like a carny… Corn Dog Soap
Food is the new black… Wearable Food by Sung Yeonju
Not your usual drunk stories… Detective Series Printed on Beer Bottles
Until it becomes self-aware… Get Your Coffee From A Dancing Robot
The Chuck Norris of Boxed Chocolates… Compartes Black Collection
Give the gift of pork fat this year… Join the Bacon Society
Grade USA beef… The United Steaks of America
Guess the horrific food item… Minimalist Food
Part of Box Vox’s Package as Pixel series, is this vintage Campbell’s Soup tin sign. Created around 1900-1910, this execution of soup can as art predates Andy Warhol’s efforts by half a century.
And, long before flag burning was en vogue, these signs were deemed to be a desecration of the American Flag and most were destroyed. Because destroying a flag comprised of soup cans seems perfectly reasonable.
One of these signs recently sold at auction for $18,400.
[via Box Vox]
