A cake with a "mystery" ingredient becomes the food fad of the Great Depression. Plus, a bonus cookie surprise.
Pineapple Salad Mush, I Mean Mousse
Pineapples find their heyday in jazz-age America...and the food industry finds a way to ruin them.
A cake with a "mystery" ingredient becomes the food fad of the Great Depression. Plus, a bonus cookie surprise.
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I track down the story of how 20th century America rediscovered—and reinvented—our favorite tin-pot-wearing pioneer hero.
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Pineapples find their heyday in jazz-age America...and the food industry finds a way to ruin them.
Pineapples find their heyday in jazz-age America...and the food industry finds a way to ruin them.