Oh Fanny...
I'm not quite sure how to introduce this next book. Here's the thing about me. I love British comedies, I have a well documented food obsession and I also happen to have spent much of my academic career in 'sexuality studies'.
My ownership of this book is a direct result of those facts. It all started was watching a favorite show of mine called “The Supersizers.” The gist of this show is that you take one young, charming, gluttonous food critic, pair him with a caustic and sarcastic female comedian, dress them up in period costume and make them eat like whatever period they are in for a week. The 70's episode featured a 'swingers party' with recipes based on this book. I had to have it.
Really?
The recipes are ridiculous (Frenched Freud Potatoes anyone?), the illustrations verge on pornographic (don't get me started on those for the dessert section), the copy reads like double-entendres a 15 year old boy might come up with and it is an absolutely amazing artifact of the zeitgeist of its time.
I can't imagine actually making anything out of it but I've relished reading it.
Enjoy!
EB
What a riot. I would leave it on my coffee table or, better yet, on a nightstand in a guest room.
Posted by: Victoria | January 24, 2013 at 06:11 AM
omg. the british are so odd and yet...i can't get enough of their accents, regardless of what they're actually saying. also: i worked at public television station for four years, the mainstay of which is afternoon british comedies. it was a shitty place to work but i bet you could've gotten a free "afternoon tea" mug out of it somehow ;)
Posted by: lunch at 11:30 | February 06, 2013 at 07:15 AM
I would LOVE a PBS telethon tea mug. And lemme guess, 'Are You Being Served?' was in heavy rotation??
Posted by: EB | February 06, 2013 at 10:06 AM