by RetroRuth | Jan 23, 2017 | Vintage Cooking
I’ve been getting a lot of questions and requests sent to me lately, so I thought I would start posting some of them to share with everyone. After all, we are all in this to learn about vintage cooking, right? Not just to see Tom eat gross food. Well…maybe I’m in it...
by RetroRuth | Nov 30, 2016 | MCMenu Fun
Whew! Well, thank you to everyone who has been hanging on through this Mid-Century Menu drought! And thank you to everyone who emailed me and commented asking if everything was okay. Everything was just fine, and now it is even better because I am done with my big...
by RetroRuth | Jan 6, 2016 | MCMenu Fun
Oh, 2016. How I have been waiting for you. As a blogger, I love wiping the slate clean every year and starting over completely fresh. I have lots of new ideas for the blog this year, involving gelatin, more vintage recipe books, scads of research and cake. Lots and...
by RetroRuth | Dec 21, 2015 | Best & Worst, MCMenu Fun, The BEST
This week Tom and I tested out the Toas-Tite and the Toas-Tite tid bit! This fun little sandwich maker, which I recently mentioned in an Astronaut Wives Club post, is a vintage, single sandwich maker that was created in 1945 and marketed by a company called...
by RetroRuth | Aug 27, 2015 | Astronaut Wives Club, MCMenu Fun
Welcome back to another week of food from behind the scenes of Astronauts Wives Club!!! This is Part II of Episode 9 (you can see Part I here), which was an episode so jam-packed with vintage food I had to split it into two huge posts. This week we have lots of...
by RetroRuth | Aug 20, 2015 | Astronaut Wives Club, MCMenu Fun
Welcome back to another week of food from behind the scenes of Astronauts Wives Club!!! Episode 9 is crazy with vintage food. So much food, in fact, that I have to split Episode 9 into two parts so it all fits! So, enjoy a meatloaf moon and a rocket ship cake, and...