Aug 012008
A (Florida) Herald Tribune food columnist started watching Mad Men recently, and is focused (unsurprisingly) on the food. She has built a list of foods seen in our favorite show, as well as typical foods of the era.
Hors d’oeuvres include shrimp cocktail and rumaki, entree possibilities include pot roast and ketchup or meatloaf Wellington, and among the desserts are banana pudding pie and baked Alaska.
Honestly? It looks like a lot of work. No wonder these were foods of an era when most women were housewives.
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"Yankee barbecue"—yum.
Get a load of the food prices in the 1960's! With todays economy prices I can settle for these bills. Porter House steaks $1.19 per pound!
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60sfood.html
Aw, it's not so bad… my mom served the majority of those dishes for dinner, and I turned out fine! *twitch, shudder, twitch* Then again, there's a reason I limit the authenticity of my MM viewing party refreshments to the cocktails.
pot roast with ketchup never sounds good to me, I’m with betty on that one. In fact, most of the foods they serve at home (or eat in restaurants for that matter) make me eternally grateful to grow up in an era of more varied cuisine (Rib eye in the pan with butter? Fish filet with potatoes au gratin and a tomatoe juice?).
I do however always want whatever Sterling Cooper is serving. When Don makes the “Mark Your Man” pitch, the guy is eating some sort of roast beef (or maybe pastrami) deliciousness that gets my mouth watering. And the sandwich that Roger’s holding right before he has the second heart attack makes me wish I had a place for deli sandwiches and sour pickles right now.