Thursday, December 26, 2013
Cookies Galore / Happy Holidays
Illustration highlights from two 1950's cook books, General Food's Cookies Galore from 1956, and Karo Syrup / Mazola Corn Oil's Recipes for Happy Holidays and "Goodies for Giving" (unfortunately, no artistic credit listed for either.) The artwork from the Cookies Galore booklet is fairly small so I blew the images up a bit more than the lovely chapter header art from the other booklet-- both are vastly different in style and terrifically entertaining in their own right, though both books of course contain delicious recipes and even some fun photography.
Man I can't even begin to tell you how much that illus with the people eating cookies while watching a woman serving cookies on a tray on TV gives me a heart attack. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteSo fab as usual!
A great collection of vintage graphics and photos.
ReplyDeleteGotta love the cliché that is a boy stealing cookies from the jar! i'll bet he was disappointed when he found out they had raisins in them.
Ugh, I can't even look at any more food (and Carol always zeroes-in on my favorites before I get here, anyway--yeah, the couple watching cookies on TV is totally the bees knees!). While I tend to really love two-tone illustrations like these, I have to admit that the dancing dog in Cookie Fun looks like he's happily peeing blood. Rover got into the glass cookies again! I might a gone with blue as the spot color on that one, frankly; like the water in all those diaper commercials.
ReplyDeleteI like the photo of Bettie Page Jr. getting ready for her kinky cookie circus party.
ReplyDeleteThis post is the cookie monster's dream come true.
ReplyDeleteI like the cookie jar that looks like a clock with the message COOKIE TIME in the place of numbers (the sixth picture I believe).
I wonder what a cookie jar like that is worth to a collector nowadays.
Lots more cook book art coming up next month, glad everyone enjoys these posts so thanks for the comments!!
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