Thank you for the cookbook tip! I keep looking for good vegetarian/vegan cookbooks (The Orthodox fasting schedule has us eating vegan for roughly half the year-- and I'm woefully short on "Wednesday and Friday options"-- we cook the same four things over and over), and usually what I find is either sleek, modern, and recommends fifty exotic ingredients... or it's something horrifying from the late 80s about how to cook everything in the microwave. I kind of stopped looking, even though I used to have a perfectly nice copy of the Vegetarian Epicure that I actually used. 78-82 gives me a target: I can usually recognize cover art from that era.
It is funny, because I also go deliberately searching thrift stores for dishes and silverware from that time period: there's a whole genre of shades-of-tan Japanese stoneware that was pretty ubiquitous then, that (while somewhat homely) is quite lightweight for stoneware, has dessert/salad plates that are *just* the right shape and size (flat, not too large), and it's old enough that the bowls still stack nicely (have you noticed how fashionable bowls these days can't stack? So irritating!). The flatware that went with it is a better quality than anything made now-- thinner and lighter, but at the same time less bendy-- and the Japanese, for whatever reason, designed spoons really nicely. They're beautifully proportioned. And yet: it's not old enough or classy enough to get treated as "vintage" (yet) so you can still buy it for next to nothing.
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Date: 2021-10-13 11:16 pm (UTC)It is funny, because I also go deliberately searching thrift stores for dishes and silverware from that time period: there's a whole genre of shades-of-tan Japanese stoneware that was pretty ubiquitous then, that (while somewhat homely) is quite lightweight for stoneware, has dessert/salad plates that are *just* the right shape and size (flat, not too large), and it's old enough that the bowls still stack nicely (have you noticed how fashionable bowls these days can't stack? So irritating!). The flatware that went with it is a better quality than anything made now-- thinner and lighter, but at the same time less bendy-- and the Japanese, for whatever reason, designed spoons really nicely. They're beautifully proportioned. And yet: it's not old enough or classy enough to get treated as "vintage" (yet) so you can still buy it for next to nothing.