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For Foodies and Designers: A New Art
GE was just one of many corporations that tried to help the female consumer with household duties. Swell, beautifully designed meals were the order of the day. Of course the day (or year) was 1937;...
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Fascinatin' Food Fotos
What is this urge that iPhone and digital camera users have for taking food photos? We've all done it, right? Food porn? We've photographed our plates at dinner, vegetable displays at markets. And...
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The Bottle's the Thing: The Branding Evolution of Soda Pop
A Pepsi-Cola serving tray circa 1940sMy fascination with brand design started with the soda-pop realm. I'd always loved leafing through old magazines and usually paid more attention to the advertising...
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Black and Shiny and Tastes Like Glycyrrhiza Glabra
Don't tell me you don't like licorice. Even if you insist that you don't, your mouth will water at the sight of this packaging and identity. Amarelli is an Italian licorice manufacturer—but not just...
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Litho-Mania: Marketing with Lithography, Circa 1939
My last post concerned the photoengraving industry of the pre-Depression period. This week it's pre-WWII lithography!Litho Media: A Demonstration of the Selling Power of Lithography, published in 1939...
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Corn Pone and Politics
Cornstarch is a fine, powdery starch produced by grinding, washing, and drying the endosperm of the corn until it reaches that powdery state. Cornstarch is gluten-free. It is also a staple that has...
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Hostess vs. Tastykake: And the Winner Is . . .
By now you know, and as the AP reported, "Hostess Brands Inc. says it's going out of business after striking workers across the country crippled its ability to make its Twinkies, Ding Dongs and other...
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Coffee Trikes: Coming Soon to a Sidewalk Near You
There's a new movement percolating in the world of mobile culinary retail. If you spend much time on Kickstarter, you may have noticed it already. The food-truck trend, in full-force for a while now,...
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Another Day's Pickin's at the Outdoor Market
Here is the second installment of our (me and Louise Fili's) fruit wrapper cavalcade—another day's pickin's through Rome's greenmarkets trash.
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Chickens B.P. (Before Perdue)
In 1971 Scali, McCabe Scoves placed chicken mogul Frank Perdue on a high perch with the TV tag line "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," which put Perdue Farm on the map, and raised their...
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