31 October 2011

How Picture Books (and Life) Used to Be

Courtesy of the Albert Whitman blog, a page from Time to Eat: A Picture Book of Foods, by Mame Dentler and Frank Fenner, Jr., published in 1945:

1 comment:

Chaucerian said...

I believe that that is actually fish in cream sauce, the preparation of which sauce was a requirement for seventh-grade girls in my town. (Or else the fish is very deteriorated.) But here's a question: will my great-great grandchildren laugh at our (technologically advanced) fish sticks?