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Chinese Roast Pork with Bean Sprouts
From "Enjoy Chinese Cooking at Home," Richard Wong, 1949. 🇨🇳 🥘 🐷 🥡🥢 Roast pork recipe follows this. "Gourmet powder" is the same as...
Brian Theis
Mar 131 min read
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I've Come for the Ham Down Under!
Ham is a popular holiday staple in the "land down under," and of course, BBQ or "barbie" sauce is a regular part of many a gala...
Brian Theis
Jan 202 min read
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Janet Leigh's Tropical Fruit Salad
Janet Leigh is best known for her iconic performance as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece, " Psycho ." When...
Brian Theis
Sep 1, 20242 min read
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Cher's Hawaiian Meatballs American Style
Gypsies, tramps, and meatballs! Check out these Cher-balls! Whatever's bothering you today, they're so scrumptious, they'll make you...
Brian Theis
Jun 20, 20241 min read
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Japanese Sukiyaki, 1963
Japanese Sukiyaki, from Better Homes & Gardens' Meals with a Foreign Flair, 1963.
Brian Theis
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Pineapple Salad Surprise, McCall's🍍
I just received a PRISTINE-condition 1974 boxed edition of McCall's Great American Recipe Card Collection from a seller on Etsy and so...
Brian Theis
Sep 14, 20232 min read
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Elizabeth Ashley's Creole Chicken & Rice à la Brian
Presenting . . . the world premiere of my chick-o-licious Sweet 'n Sour Creole Chicken 'n Rice, also known as Elizabeth Ashley's Creole...
Brian Theis
Apr 19, 20232 min read
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Tuna Teriyaki
A delicious new recipe I cooked up at my beach house a few weeks ago. I hope you'll enjoy it too. This one is a website (and newsletter)...
Brian Theis
Sep 15, 20221 min read
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How To Have a Luau Indoors
This one is a treasure of my collection. Not even a proper cookbook-let, I've always adored this beautifully designed advertising recipe...
Brian Theis
Jun 9, 20221 min read
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Hawaiian Macaroni Salad
Presenting . . . my heavenly Hawaiian Macaroni Salad! It goes great with chicken, fish, barbecue, you name it. It has all the fun but a...
Brian Theis
Jun 9, 20221 min read
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Cocktail Franks with Luau King Sweet 'n Sour Sauce
Who said gracious entertaining is dead? Not when there are cocktail wieners on the summer party menu! A highlight of the Polynesian Party...
Brian Theis
Jul 7, 20212 min read
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Tuna Bora Bora & South Seas Coconut Sauce
From "The Infinite Feast: How to Host the Ones You Love—Recipes from the Big Easy . . . and Beyond" by Brian Theis, 2020 Click here for...
Brian Theis
Jun 3, 20212 min read
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Collecting Vintage Swizzle Sticks!
I don't have a huge collection of vintage souvenir swizzle sticks, but it's a collection I really enjoy. I keep it out at the beach,...
Brian Theis
Jun 3, 20211 min read
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Hawaiian Party Book!
Aloha! Time for a luau! We got Hawaiian vocabulary, menus, decorations, cocktails!, appetizers, salads, even Chinese dishes! Here's a...
Brian Theis
Jun 3, 20211 min read
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The Patio Gourmet, 1957
In this fun, uniquely photographed cookbooklet David Wade brings you a gourmet melting pot of dishes for your next patio party! Here's...
Brian Theis
May 27, 20211 min read
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Holiday Inn International Cook Book 1972
Ruth M. Malone, also known as "The Cook Book Lady," was Food Editor of Holiday Inn Magazine. She put this bestseller together featuring...
Brian Theis
Nov 11, 20201 min read
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Betty Crocker's Hostess Cookbook, 1967
Hostess Cookbook?! Hey, what about us hosts? In 1967 the idea that the male of the species might be the one having friends over for the...
Brian Theis
Oct 21, 20202 min read
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Kowloon Ginger Beef With Papaya, 1965
From Hawaii Cook Book, 150 Island Recipes and Luau Favorites, Don Fitzgerald, 1965 Four words: peanut oil for frying. I'm sold! KOWLOON...
Brian Theis
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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Sweet-Sour Pork 1963
From Better Homes & Gardens Meals with a FOREIGN FLAIR, 1963 Sweet-Sour Pork l 1/2 pounds lean pork shoulder, cut in 2x1/2-inch strips 1...
Brian Theis
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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