Book Review: The Gallery of Regrettable Food
The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In spite of the book’s synopsis, which warns that this is not a cookbook, there are recipes and instructions scattered about. They aren’t any sort of competition for the witty, snarky writing, though.
Still… I’m tempted to try to recreate a dish or two from my childhood. I loved my mother’s cooking back in the early 1960s, but when I think back on it now from way up the timeline, I have to wonder if I’d been dropped on my head a few times. Perhaps a taste of bygone days could set the record straight.
But it really doesn’t matter if you remember these foods, or are learning about them for the first time (you poor dear). This is, at it’s heart, a cultural history book. This is how life was, once upon a time, and I can vouch for that. Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. So it would probably be a great idea to LEARN THIS HISTORY!
Lori Alden Holuta
Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields of Mid-Michigan, where she grows vegetables and herbs when she’s not writing, editing, or playing games with a cat named Chives.
