amylsacks' photos with the keyword: barbecue

Feeling old-timey Modern again. :) Sunset magazine, April 1955: Left column and second ad in middle column. The New Yorker , May 9th 1953: First and third ad in middle column. Sunset , October 1955: Right column.

Three out of five sections, from a promotional fold-out published by the American Lamb Council, Denver, CO. The foil outerwear was a sneaky plug for Kaiser Aluminum, which is mentioned in the recipes on the back of each section.

Uncle Jake has just bet Dad fifty bucks that he can't eat that entire steak in one sitting. Dad's only hope of victory is the extra stomach acid that comes with sating one's "coffee hunger" before the meal. From the September issue of Western Family magazine.

I'd like my steak done zero-gravity, please! From the July issue of Sunset magazine.

"The few important points to learn about building a Beer-B-Cue fire can be easily mastered. Follow the directions carefully and your fire building will be simple to do..." Or just do what everyone else did back then: Get plastered and impatient and dump a whole bottle of lighter fluid on the grill. Don't give your wife any beer. You'll need her to drive you to the hospital. From a 16 page booklet published by The Tested Recipe Institute, New York, NY and The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., New York & Albany, N.Y.

"Alway [sic] remember to light the fire early. Allow at least as much time as is required by the fire starter you are using..." Any beer left over after the party can be used to clean the grill.

I'll build a spice-way to Paradise/With a new step every dayyy...

Mmm... mmm... Flesh and salt: two of the major food groups. Now all we need is a pitcher of martinis and a carton of vanilla ice cream! From the June issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

Of course Alex loved Julia, but even after all these years of marriage, he worried. What if this time she dissipated his manly energies by pouring out too much dressing, too soon?

What a great gallery show! I just love trompe l'oeil, don't you? From the July issue of Family Circle.

The scary thing is, that steak only serves one. From the August issue.

But don't try to "tenderize" the meat with plain old 7-Up. It'll disintegrate!

Here's to the ladies who lunch, while elsewhere, a pint of beer plays "Where's Waldo." (It's a long, long way from its soulmate: the Beerwurst, which is wayyy over on the upper left side of Sausage Fest '70).Originally posted to flickr on 1/29/11.