Spam: The Cookbook - Hardcover

Patten, Marguerite

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0600603431 ISBN 13: 9780600603436

Publisher: Hamlyn, 2001

Synopsis

If all the cans of SPAM(r)...ever eaten were placed end to end, they would circle the globe ten times. Residents of Hawaii eat an average of 4 cans of SPAM(r) per person each year--more than any other place on earth! It's retro, it's fun, and it's about lunchmeat! Just think of how many friends you could give this to! And be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you don't want to miss out on the fun, the lively anecdotes, and the merry memories of SPAM(r) dinners. From the giant SPAM(r) can on a building to the fastest SPAM(r) can on earth (it's a car) to the hilarious SPAM(r) song intoned by the Monty Python troupe, this is an irresistible treat. Packed with drawings and photos from the nostalgic to the wacky, and with 20 recipes that will redefine your idea of the SPAM(r) meal, this scrapbook of SPAM(r) treasures is one delicious treat! "Without SPAM(r), we wouldn't have been able to feed our army."--Nikita Khrushchev.

About this title

About the Author:

As one of the world's most famous cookbook writers, Marguerite Patten has probably done more for the image of SPAM than any other person in the world.  With over 160 cookbooks to her credit, including Marguerite Patten's Post-War Kitchen, We'll Eat Again and The Victory Cookbook, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Food Writers in 1995.  

From Publishers Weekly:

Dating from the 1930s, featured in the Smithsonian, rocketing to unimagined heights of success and staying there for 60 years who would have guessed that "shoulder meat left over from the pork industry," blended with ham and canned as a luncheon meat would enjoy such glory? In SPAM: The Cookbook, Marguerite Patten (Marguerite Patten's Post-War Kitchen) offers 20 recipes (Thai SPAM Cakes; SPAM steaks in Port Wine); a concise history of SPAM (the visionary Jay C. Hormel beat the odds when he sold his brainchild to his father and then the world; by 1944, 90% of Hormel canned foods "were exported to various theaters of war"); quotes and excerpts from Nikita Kruschev, Monty Python and fan clubs; and much more world-wide SPAMiana. Pop-culture lovers will drool. Photos.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Hamlyn
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0600603431
• ISBN 13: 9780600603436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64