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Retro Diner: Comfort Food from the American Roadside
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9781888054682
ISBN: 1888054689
Label: Collectors Press
Manufacturer: Collectors Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: October 01, 2002
Publisher: Collectors Press
Studio: Collectors Press
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Editorial Review:
Jump back through time to an era when sitting at the counter in your neighborhood diner was sure to bring hearty made-from-scratch food, friendly service, and an atmosphere all it own. Those sleek stainless steel eateries can still be found with lines of faithful and appreciative customers waiting to scoot into a red leather booth and sink their appetites into true American comfort food. The waitress may holler out your order in slang only a diner-phile may understand, but if you're a regular she probably remembers your name. Look! Here's that slice of Mile-High Meringue Pie to top off your meal! The first luscious mouthful will take you away to where Elvis is on the nickel jukebox and friends walk in the door.
Featuring a fun, colorful journey through diner history, Retro Diner offers over 115 of the best comfort food recipes from the American roadside, including Blue Moon Diner's Patty Melt, Steeltown Meatloaf, Dixie Diner's Blueberry Pancakes, and Peach Cobbler from Jake's.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Easy comfort food
It's a colorful, fun-to-read book with a lot of basics. Meatloaf, biscuits, stuff that's good well... 'diner food'
As with any cook book, read ahead of any recipe to make sure you really understand it before you jump in. Sometimes they call for things that seem a little odd prep-wise.
Nice illustrations, too!
Rating:  - One of the best diner cookbooks out there
I really love this cookbook! Not only are the recipes all from diners across the country, but they all contain ingredients you would find in a typical cupboard. It also has wonderful images from back in the day and a history of the diner. I would buy this as a gift and I plan to buy the other cookbooks for myself!
Rating: - THE GOLDEN AGE OF DINERS!
In an era where generic, noisy, bar & grill restaurants crowd every street corner, the days of mom & pop diners and their home-cooked specialties are sorely missed. Retro Diner from Collectors Press is an ode to the golden age of diners and diner foods. Filled with over 115 recipes as well as vintage photographs, menus and advertising, Retro Diner is a look back at those days of spinning seats and gum stuck under the counter.
The book begins with a short introduction of the ... Read More
Rating: - Retro flash back...
The book has some really good recipes and I would give it a full 5 stars if it included some recipes for classic diner drinks. Then the book would be complete.
I love the sandwhiches, country fried steak with gravy and pie recipes. Great retro pictures of ads and people from the 40's-50's. It's a great coffee table book to thumb through and the recipes are really interesting too.
Rating: - A compendium of nostalgic, yesteryear cuisine
Retro Diner: Comfort Food From The American Roadside by Linda Everett is a compendium of nostalgic, yesteryear cuisine that is a kind of birthright culinary legacy for every American. Profusely illustrated throughout, Retro Diner is a celebration of great eating as experienced by generations of men and women who ate "blue plate specials" and other palate pleasing, appetite satisfying, pocketbook friendly fare from a local diner. From Granny Glenn's Biscuits n' Gravey; Corn Chowder from the ... Read More
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