Retro & Weird Food & Lifestyle Round Up

We all know I adore a good retro recipe. I was browsing t'interweb for one recently and discovered a fantastic site for all you retro recipe-heads out there. Ghost Traveller walks the tightrope between hilarious, weird and intriguing in a way which sums up the appeal of American Gothic (in the popular sense). Hell, it even links to Sacho's Pictures of The Unexplained (Sancho appears to be a dog with an Afro). Reviews of haunted hotels around the USA, retro recipes  (sorted into the merely antiquated and the truly bizarre) and of course trailer park cooking. They even have Jello Hell-o, where the retro love of jellifying all foods is celebrated. Brilliant. I will be trying some of the recipes; some, but not all. To be honest, I might stick with the trailer park ones, as they seem to involve cheese and Doritos, and not steeping sour milk through a cheesecloth.

Meat Man Would Feel Right At Home

Additionally, if vintage beauty is more your thing, try their Feelin' Pretty site. It's like Eddie and Patsy on acid. I urge you to read it, because nothing is prettier than a face full of laughter, attached to a body which is rolling about on the floor with a stitch.

Right, and now some more hilarious recipe sites (many of which are mentioned on Ghost Traveller too):

• The Vintage Cookbook Trials - does exactly what it says on the tin: tries out old recipes. It's kept very up-to-date and there are usable recipes on here.
• The Hungover Gourmet - a true celebration of retro recipes with the wonders of Spam, hotdogs and so forth. Superb links page, for any foodie modern or retro.
• A Flikr of a selection of vintage cookbook images.
• The Gallery Of Regrettable Food - those 'cookbooks' which were actually adverts, stuffed full on unwise ingredient combinations.
• Retro-Foods - The advantage here is that the recipes are tested, sorting the ridiculous from those which were merely terrifyingly photographed.
• Retro Recipe Attempts - Again, these are tested. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. The photos are great.
• Twisted Candy - a nice compendium of old recipes, with its own selection of links.

What aspects of vintage or retro lifestyle do you enjoy? Or indeed find bemusing..?