Sarah Archer

What are the dates here?

It is through July 31st, 2026.

Oh, thank God.

All right.

We have lots of time.

Yeah.

So there's bags of time.

And the Rienzi House has a historical cookbook collection.

So that was kind of the genesis of this, like, you know, like, let's explore sort of, you know, what this would have looked like if you were sort of entertaining in 1960s Houston at that level.

I published a book in 2018 called The Mid-Century Kitchen, which is sort of more about

not so much about food, but more about appliances, right?

Sort of appliances design and the transformation of the kitchen over time.

Well, you can't have a lot of the food without the appliances.

That's very true.

It continues to be true.

Yeah.

And a lot of it is about the advertising and kind of mythos around the kitchen.

So it's sort of less a literal study of kind of what everybody's kitchen was actually like and more a survey of like the ideal kitchen and kind of how that was marketed to American consumers and what it meant.

And what was the ideal kitchen at that time?

And do you have a sense?