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Hattie Carter’s Great Cooking Ideas is this phone book sized thing that came from a garage sale.

Published in 1978 – on really cheap newsprint (just like real phone books) – this thing is quite a gem. Nothing I’ve ever made from its pages has ever let me down.

Cuisines covered are surprisingly global (for the time) – curries and sukiyaki mixed in with a homespun collection of casseroles and bakes. Not a design masterpiece tho; cute clip art-like illustrations punctuate large Helvetica type – with heds set in Souvenir, odd floral borders abound.

The Italian Beef Stew is a fantastic mix of flavors. Here’s the recipe. [Read more →]

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Tumblr is a breeding ground for Fuck Yeah content. Taking this one step farther is Fuck Yeah Nouns.

Type in a noun, get an image.

Try it here.

Found via Lyndsie and Suha

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Found via Martha Garcia

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The incredible Larry Graham on bass.

Graham Central Station: Earthquake

Found via George Holden

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Buddy Guy, Buddy Miles, Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall-Smith jam. Mary Had a Little Lamb. From Supershow 1969.

Below, more Buddy Miles  . . .

Buddy Miles: Them Changes

Found via George Holden

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Shuggie Otis’ Sweet Thang set to video.

Found via George Holden

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Plush cuts of meat. And more. Go here.

Found via Cheeta Fight

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‘The sneakers, a pair of Nike Air Force Ones are called ‘Haute Charcuterie”

Meat shoes designed by Swiss design firm BlackYard, presented at Art Clash 2009. More info here.

Found via Modern Urban Style

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‘Jimmy Lee is one of America’s great black chefs. A native of Louisiana, he has cooked from Natchez to Mobile, Charleston to New Orleans. Now semiretired, Jimmy Lee lives in California and cooks only for family and friends.’

Jimmy Lee’s Soul Food Cook Book. From 1970. Old paperback found at a garage sale. Dogeared, cause I’ve cooked a lot of stuff outta it.

Cheap ingredients, incredible flavors. Here’s a bucketful of recipes  . . . .  [Read more →]

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‘Unofficial’ video for Alexander Ebert’s Truth. From the self-titled album.

Footage lifted from the Ken Burns documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004).

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Pennsylvania Chow-Chow was a mainstay in my family.

My grandfather used to jar his own and about 15 years ago, I went in search of the Official Family Recipe.

And it turned out, no one ever wrote it down.

So I ended up questioning my mother, aunts, uncles how it was done. Pieced together what I could and whipped up a large batch.

Designed some homespun labels and sent a bunch of jars out to the family.

In my version of the recipe, I keep the veggies crisp – which I define as A California Thing. I never understood the need to make cooked vegetables come out mushy.

My grandfather’s reaction was, ‘Oh, you’ll get it right next time.’
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