Vallitettavan Ruoan Galleria

A few weeks ago I received an email from Arabella David mentioning that she enjoyed the photos of the Hietalahden Kirpputori I have on-line and somewhere along the way she mentioned she had found a bunch of vintage Finnish recipe cards at the kirpputori which were all the rage in the 70s. I remember collecting the Betty Crocker recipe cards in the 70s too and now I wish I would have saved them. Recipe books and cards are a real treasure for historians and a subject of books like Eat My Words. I was hoping she would scan them and put them online and she has! The cards are utterly fascinating and terrifying at the same time: Vallitettavan Ruoan Galleria, the Finnish Gallery of Regrettable Food.

Erkki...Jarkko tells me Eila has a stash of these that I'd love to look at and maybe even scan in for a not-quite-so-fancy Finnish version of the Gallery of Regrettable Food :)