amylsacks' photos with the keyword: spoon

"Are you 'choosey' about the foods that appear on your table? Careful of the quality of every ingredient? Then Borden's Evaporated Milk is your brand of evaporated milk-- and no talk of other brands, 'just as good,' will sell you any other!" Front cover of a 66-page booklet published by Borden's. Originally posted to flickr on February 1st, 2011.

I can't recall which pattern was Harpo's favorite. I guess it's time to watch some old movies again. :D From McCall's magazine.

Always start conversation at the dinner party by asking, "Have you tried my special moist vegetables?" From the May issue of Better Homes & Gardens .

Yeah, I remember when public sculpture still had some panache to it. From the July issue of House & Garden magazine.

A promotion put out by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, IL. These drawings are what happens when Forties WPA Cubism meets a postwar daydream of Mom, Flag, and Apple Pie (a la mode). Watch them hang out together for hours, reveling in the wonder of icy cold vanilla-flavored FREEDOM! Also, they talk frequently about a variety of dessert called "New York Ice Cream." I once spent several hours in New York, but I have no idea what that is. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. (Enlarged to show detail. Originally posted to flickr on April 3rd, 2011.)

Above: Was this left over from some promo where you could win Wedgewood and silverplate if you sent in a wheelbarrow full of box tops? I hope so. Below, left: "Good Evening, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Yes, dinner is crap and my gems are plastic. But given what you pay my husband, maybe you should just shut up and eat it."

And think of what all those hours of quadruple sifting will do for your upper body strength, Ladies!

A couple of new silverplate spoons under the tree was probably the height of luxury at that time.

The original inspiration for the Simpsons. From the November issue of House Beautiful .

Was this photo supposed to make the "Cook Book" seem big enough for its own room? ("Freddy, be a dear and take the handtruck and bring in Mother's recipe collection. I think some nice orange-glazed pound cake after supper would be just the thing...") Also, something clearly went wrong with that stick of butter. Maybe it's transforming into a bar of soap. From the September issue of Household magazine.

Looks like coffee was still too common in those days to merit its own tribute panel, but the designs are great, nonetheless. From House Beautiful magazine.

There's also a crab "Heavenly Hash" (no connection to the ice cream of the same name, thankfully) and "Orange Bubble," which is basically a dumpling-biscuit fusion with mandarin orange slices in it. Could be worse.

Space and perspective seem out of whack in this picture. Maybe it's how one starts to see the world after dusting figurines and polishing silver for days without a break. From National Geographic magazine.

Louisa May never worried about doing her last-minute holiday shopping in the evening after work, even in the roughest parts of town. Not after she acquired her brace of giant sentient attack spoons! From the pages of National Geographic magazine.

(Joke about going bust from buying expensive wedding gifts goes here.) From National Geographic Magazine.

Buy now and receive a free magnifying glass and family-size bottle of aspirin! You'll find them both helpful when you have to sit down and polish all those tiny little decorations yourself. From National Geographic magazine.

My possessions are sterling, so my mate doesn't have to be! From National Geographic magazine.

Why can't the food photos in this booklet look as cute as the graphics? Would color have helped, or just made things worse? [sigh] So many questions... (L) Front and back covers, and (R) the first two pages from a promo published by Kraft Kitchen, Chicago, Illinois.