Vintage Blogs

If you were keeping house ten to fifteen years ago, you may remember that we then were passing through an era of flat and flavorless cookery, when it was the custom to publish recipes without even mention of salt and pepper! There were exceptions, of course, and some sturdy individualists kept right on seasoning their food as they always had done, but many of us fell into line and served all our meals bland enough for the baby’s diet.

Now that alcoholic drinks are under the ban, doubtless Americans will consume more coffee than ever before, and there may even be a revival of the old-time coffee-houses. Three hundred and sixty-five years ago, this autumn, the first coffee-house in the world was opened at Constantinople, and two hundred and seventy years ago, the first English coffee-house sent forth its aroma at Oxford.