It’s Like Vintage Porn, But For Your Mouth!
In short: My grandfather worked for Lever Brothers after college (using his marketing experience from the Harvard Lampoon), with Spry, a competitor to Crisco, being one of his primary products he was in charge of. I only know of this because the family dog which my Aunts and Uncle would talk about so fondly was a great dane named Spry. A few months ago I recieved a copy of one of the Spry cookbooks which were given out in grocery stores as part of a direct marketing approach to get people to use and purchase spry. I don’t have a date for when this cookbook was made, but I decided it would be fun to try to recreate some of the recipes today to see how horrible they really were (or possibly delicious). I don’t think I am really going into unchartered terroritory here, but I figure this will be something to get me back to writing and photography again. And cooking things in vegetable shortening. Unfortunately Spry is no longer made in the US (anyone live in Cyprus?), so I have to use the competitor, for which this entire cookbook was created to prove it was better than, in other words: Crisco.
Update: Since writing about this over the summer, I actually started on the low carb / paleo diet, so this is kind of on hold until I’m done with the weightloss part of that (on the plus side, this is the least I’ve weighed since college).
