Interesting article from Design Observer on this vintage cookbook.
Read the full storyon Design Observer– Annals of Ephemera: Town and Country Cookbook. My favorite part of the story written by Jessica Helfans is below:
“Finally, there’s the decapitated head and shoulders of a little boy, his mouth wide open in what appears to be a look of genuine sugar-induced insanity. Is this a look of anticipatory glee, or a child breaking out in hives? Did those Filbert Butter Balls on page 22 freak him out completely, or did his mother just walk into the kitchen naked? It’s an unsettling image — one part Hitler youth, one part Dennis the Menace — that echoes its surrounding tableau of typographic uncertainty. In a comparatively early exposition of mash-up, the Town and Country Cookbook leaves nothing if not a curious aftertaste.”
