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70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food
Anna Pallai
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Description for 70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food
Hardcover. A cookbook that covers all the essentials, from starters through to desserts, dinner party etiquette and the dreaded 'foreign' food, there's no potato-fashioned-as-a-stone left unturned. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; WBA; WH; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian and The Spectator Anna Pallai was brought up on 1970s stalwarts of stuffed peppers, meatloaf and platters of slightly greying hardboiled eggs. When she rediscovered her mother's grease-stained 70s cookbooks, she knew she needed to share them with the world, and so the hit Twitter account @70s_Party was born. Harking back to a simpler pre-Instagram, pre-clean-eating era, when the only concern for your dinner party was whether your aspic would set in time, this is a joyful celebration of food that can give ... Read more
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian and The Spectator Anna Pallai was brought up on 1970s stalwarts of stuffed peppers, meatloaf and platters of slightly greying hardboiled eggs. When she rediscovered her mother's grease-stained 70s cookbooks, she knew she needed to share them with the world, and so the hit Twitter account @70s_Party was born. Harking back to a simpler pre-Instagram, pre-clean-eating era, when the only concern for your dinner party was whether your aspic would set in time, this is a joyful celebration of food that can give ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Square Peg
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910931387
SKU
V9781910931387
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About Anna Pallai
Anna Pallai is a PR and agent and formerly Publicity Director at Faber where she helped manage the publishing careers of Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais, Richard Ayoade, David Mitchell and numerous others. She was born midway through the 1970s and vividly recalls the period of 1975-80 as being a personal culinary nadir. Having been forcefed devilled eggs, stuffed peppers ... Read more
Reviews for 70s Dinner Party: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly of Retro Food
The funniest book I've seen so far this year... Perfect deadpan wit. Part social history, part Dadaist artwork.
Jonathan Coe
Guardian, Book of the Year
The 70s Dinner Party book is stuffed to the gills with jaw-dropping images that feel like they're from another world, never mind another decade.
Louise Rhind-Tutt
i ... Read more
Jonathan Coe
Guardian, Book of the Year
The 70s Dinner Party book is stuffed to the gills with jaw-dropping images that feel like they're from another world, never mind another decade.
Louise Rhind-Tutt
i ... Read more