Sarah Archer

And I think there's a case to be made that they're almost more

like decorating magazines than they are cookbooks.

Yeah, which certainly happens today as well.

It happens absolutely today because like describe what we're seeing on the cover with Meals with a Foreign Flair.

Yeah.

And OK, so Meals with a Foreign Flair, it has the title and big letters and like this big, I would say, like not probably technically Technicolor, but Technicolor feeling like very vivid hues.

Yeah.

A photo on the front of this kind of buffet laid out of the foods that you're going to be able to make in here, presumably.

most of which do look pretty bland and like broad interpretations on and also it's like foreign foreign flair what flair oh you know yeah exactly just foreign um 100 recipes from 18 countries main dishes desserts bread salads prize souvenirs from around the world and then you open it you sent me a couple pages it says around the world a la carte italy sweden india

And it's, again, like lovely pictures of these like fairly ambitious spreads that make sense as something that's being sort of written in haste recipe wise.

Right.

And it feels like you would it makes sense to me that you might have it kind of out as a way of showing the kind of person who you were and that you were, you know, interested in a new type of cooking.

Also, do you remember the Mad Men episode where Betty Draper does like an international buffet?

Yeah.

I have not seen Mad Men.

Oh, you haven't seen Mad Men?

Oh, I know.

Isn't that terrible?

So there's a season.

OK, so the episode is called A Night to Remember.