amylsacks' photos with the keyword: Albert Gommi

"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (5)", 1955

"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (5)", 1955

amylsacks
16 Aug 2022 1 104
If the delivery service forgets my smokes and red wine again, I'm not tipping! Originally posted to flickr on January 30th, 2011.
"Kenmore Automatica Skillet (3)," 1955

"Kenmore Automatica Skillet (3)," 1955

amylsacks
16 Aug 2022 1 87
The one sweet considered hip enough to hang out with the dead animals in the chapter about frying.
"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (2)", 1955

"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (2)", 1955

amylsacks
16 Aug 2022 2 92
Back then, they deliberately made fish in its normal form look as frightening as possible, so people would freak out and just buy the sticks. Originally posted to flickr on January 30th, 2011.
"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (4), 1955

"Kenmore Automatic Skillet (4), 1955

amylsacks
16 Aug 2022 1 98
The presence of celery salt almost makes this qualify as foreign cooking!
"Kenmore Automatic Skillet," 1955

"Kenmore Automatic Skillet," 1955

amylsacks
16 Aug 2022 1 89
Front and back covers of a 32-page promotional published by Sears Roebuck & Co. You've gotta' have all that meaty goodness front and center to justify such an extravagant purchase. ;) Originally posted to flickr on January 30th, 2011.
Vacumatic Cooking (6), 1963

Vacumatic Cooking (6), 1963

amylsacks
28 Jul 2020 1 140
For some reason, breakfast is at the very end of the recipe collection. Maybe the copy writer worked night shift. I don't know...
Vacumatic Cooking (5), 1963

Vacumatic Cooking (5), 1963

amylsacks
28 Jul 2020 1 138
Heh heh. "Butt." Also, the pasta became a fish dish because they threw in a can of clams.
Vacumatic Cooking (4), 1963

Vacumatic Cooking (4), 1963

amylsacks
28 Jul 2020 1 129
Mmmm... ellipses... they're what's for dinner.
Vacumatic Cooking (3), 1963

Vacumatic Cooking (3), 1963

amylsacks
28 Jul 2020 1 173
Yes, all our foodstuffs were lovingly prepped by off-duty nurses. That's why our chicken soup is 50% more therapeutic than that of our leading competitor.
Vacumatic Cooking (2), 1963

Vacumatic Cooking (2), 1963

amylsacks
28 Jul 2020 1 140
All or most of these food photos are likely the work of Albert Gommi. I have a dollar paperback called A Picture Treasury Of Good Cooking which features many of the same pictures. They've popped up in mid-century promos from many other companies, too.
Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (5), 1954

Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (5), 1954

amylsacks
27 Feb 2012 222
"Strawberry Chiffon Pie" with "Oatmeal Pastry" crust. There were more recipes that didn't make it into the photos ("Design: J. Walter Flynn"), but maybe it's better if I leave those to your imagination...?
Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (4), 1954

Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (4), 1954

amylsacks
27 Feb 2012 221
I don't know what those comb-stand things are. They look like the plastic "separators" I've seen in pizza boxes. Y'know, the ones that keep the cheese from sticking to the pizza box lid. But to hold up "oven-popped rice cereal" encased apples and stay upright like that, they've gotta' be cast iron. Or else hot-glued to the table top.
Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (3), 1954

Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (3), 1954

amylsacks
27 Feb 2012 194
"Roast Stuffed Pork Shoulder." With puffed wheat cereal stuffing. I'm really sorry. At first glance, I was sure the pink and red bits were Fruity Ring™ cereal, but no. They're actually real fruit. (Apple and prune.)
Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (2), 1954

Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes (2), 1954

amylsacks
27 Feb 2012 203
I don't think the bacon is any help here. (Yes, there really are crushed cornflakes mixed into the omelet.) But the tomato sauce does boast chili powder (a whopping half-teaspoon serves 4!), Worcestershire sauce, and MSG! Woo!
Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes, 1954

Clock-Wise Cereal Dishes, 1954

amylsacks
27 Feb 2012 202
That reddish-brown shrapnel is dried beef. And it wasn't actually included in the "bite-size shredded rice cereal" box. At least, I'm pretty sure it wasn't. From the February issue of Everywoman's.
"Time-Saving Meals" (7), 1954

"Time-Saving Meals" (7), 1954

amylsacks
18 May 2012 143
Some clippings from the recipe headers. You can almost imagine Mrs. America with the pocket watch ticking away in her frilly apron, as she dreams of sneaking into Chinatown for some real food.
"Time-Saving Meals" (6), 1954

"Time-Saving Meals" (6), 1954

amylsacks
18 May 2012 176
Menu: Orange Pork Chops Cheese Potatoes Peas and Carrots Tomato Aspic Rye Rolls Raspberry Mold There's tons of other recipes that didn't get photographed. Even some chronically under-seasoned fish, creamed cauliflower, and sweet-sour spinach. And now I think I need a bottle of whiskey, too.
"Time-Saving Meals" (5), 1954

"Time-Saving Meals" (5), 1954

amylsacks
18 May 2012 197
Menu: Chicken Pies Cranberry Stars Sweet Potatoes Mixed Vegetable Salad Fruit Compote After the creative frozen pie + cranberry glop "trim", Mrs. Johnson was inspired to start reading Camus and Nietzsche again.
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