Bear (the non-gay kind) cookery.

Creativepro.com has a great feature article today on You Are What You Eat and dishes up some great food dish pictures from cookbooks past.

Of course the article is from a historical design perspective, but some of these gems are just screaming to be made in the Kitchen of Love.

I should make Tuna in Jell-O for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I mean... it has olives and celery in the actually Jell-O too!

And "those in the know" are aware of my love of bananas. So why not make some Ham and Bananas Hollandaise.

Not all the problems with cookbooks from the past are do to technical difficulties. Some are more philosophical, or sociological in nature. Such is the case with the "Wild Fowl Game Cookery" by Frank Kohler, published in 1961. The drawing of happy bears, smiling deer, and frisky squirrels are charming until you realize they are all celebrating their ultimate death, dismemberment, and eating.