In support of gel cookery

[nokomarie.livejournal.com]

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This page is not exactly the way it appears in this 1972 book, and the food that I have made from it is actually pretty good but the photos...the photos are earth-shattering.

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[misstiajournal.livejournal.com]

i like where it says it might look like a collection of hotdogs! totally made me think of the hotdogs stuck in jello!!

[nokomarie.livejournal.com]

This picture used to disturb me as a child. But then, I must confess, I have eaten very little jello.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

It does look like a collection of hot dogs, lol.

[nokomarie.livejournal.com]

And yet, judging from the results from the rest of the book, possibly quite edible. Would I eat it? Only as a joke or alone. Recipes like fruit ambrosia just leave me staring and this thing...look; I don't even need to be friends with a woman who would serve this at a party.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I think the concept of gelatin molds is what appeals to me ... food as art, in that futuristic space-age 50s way. Your entire meal, available as individual, self-contained colorful slices from the plated, shaped and wobbly mold as it is passed around. It just seems so optimistic to me, somehow.