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I grabbed a bunch of mid-century Better Homes & Gardens cookbooks off of Amazon recently. This was the first one that arrived.

I buy these mostly for the Gallery-of-Regrettable-Food-level pictures and the gee-whiz processed-food laden recipes. They're not good recipes, mostly, but they are interesting in that inventive, occasionally horrifying, this-is-the-future, hurry-up cooking way. There are refrigerator rolls, biscuit mix, canned soup, and processed cheese everywhere you look in this thing.

I grabbed a bunch of mid-century Better Homes & Gardens cookbooks off of Amazon recently. This was the first one that arrived.

As a former cheesemonger, the thing that I found most interesting in this volume was just how few foreign cheeses were included in the recipes, and how many of the approximately thirty cheeses pictured in an explanatory diagram in the back of the book were things that had never crossed my counter. You wouldn't think that cheese would change so much in thirty years, but it seemed to have.

And many of the things in that picture didn't seem to have made it into the recipe section. Maybe they worried people wouldn't have most of those things available to them in most supermarkets, and that's why they limited themselves to American, cream, cottage, (generic) blue, and processed Swiss and American cheeses.

I marked a couple recipes to try, but there was so much American cheese everywhere - something I'm not a fan of - that a great many of the recipes got disqualified on that basis. The most surprising recipe was a recipe for puris, which are a deep-fried Indian bread. But I'd never before seen a puri recipe that called for American cheese!

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