Sarah Archer

Lying around for three hours.

I know.

It's very active as leisure goes.

It's very like skippy.

I love her and her bangs.

I think what's fascinating about the food trends is one of the things I touch on in the book is that there is also a form of almost like virtual travel that happens because there is this vogue for, in air quotes, foreign food starting in the late 50s and early 60s.

And it coincides with the beginning of the jet age.

Oh, OK.

Tell us about that.

So this is kind of a nifty kind of parallel.

So the Boeing 707, not to like, you know, complicate the vibes by bringing up Boeing.

No, I love the vibes.

Premieres in 1958.

That was kind of the big high profile new jet.

And it basically it's jet engines that replaced propeller planes.

So if you there was tourism and there absolutely were people going.

But if you were to fly, say, from like New York to London or New York to Paris in 1952, that would have taken you somewhere between 12 and 15 hours.

Jet engines cut that about in half.

So what we're used to where like going from the East Coast of the U.S.

to Europe is roughly like six, seven, eight hours, something like that.