Mens’ foods again! Old cookbooks + Republican kitsch = love.
Matthew Yglesias » Learn to Cook With the Republican Politicians of the Roaring Twenties.
Dave Noon somehow unearthed Google Books’ copy of an extremely amusing 1922 volume titled The Stag Cookbook: Written for Men by Men, teaching the men of the roaring twenties how to cook without turning gay. One recipe offers Warren G. Harding’s waffles and over [sic] you can learn about Senator Reed Smoot’s peach cobbler recipie. And, yes, that’s Senator Smoot from the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
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