Just a quick post today, as I am off to a friends and I have some Thanksgiving things to prepare. I love this image of the son watching hi...

It seems the tradition of football and Thanksgiving has been around a bit, as this 1949 New Yorker attests. We don’t, in my family at least...

Even though I am now going to be answering reader questions on Sundays, I thought there were two good comments on last post. So, for today’s...

  I realized I forgot to share my finished Jam and recipe with you the other day. While speaking of canning I must tell you about my first ...

I thought we should continue our discussions of food, proportion, portion servings and nutrition both vintage and modern. I really feel I h...

Morocco, which largest city is Casablanca ( a wonderful film we are all familiar with) gained its independence yestrday 2 March 1956, from F...

I have mentioned before that since starting my project some of the 1950s ‘educational films’ I used to laugh at now seem to actually be good...

Tupperware debuted in 1946. I think it is one of those quintessential american 1950s icons. It is also very practical and much used to this...