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Prepared for Martin R. | Delivered May 23, 2020
Summer Foods 1970-1990
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Goals
To find popular summer vacation foods in the U.S. from 1970 to 1990, in order to provide information for conceptual thinking for a project.
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Early Findings
1970's
In the 1970s finger foods became very popular in the U.S., and deviled eggs were among those that can be considered "
the perfect finger food
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Fondue's popularity in the U.S. started in the 1960s, but continued right through the 1970s as the "
perfect party food
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communal pot.
This article lists
60 general dishes
that were widely popular in the 1970s many of which are typical summer vacation and party cuisine, such as bacon wrapped spam bites, 7- layer gelatin salad,
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grilled pineapple, pineapple upside-down cake, stuffed peppers, and fresh strawberry pie.
According to "Sylvia Lovgren's Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads," these recipes were in the 1970s chapter: pumpkin bread, crepes, zucchini bread, quiche Lorraine,
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, a spinach salad with cheddar cheese dressing, carrot cake, granola fondue, broccoli casserole, apple cake, wacky cake, impossible pie, strawberry squares, lemon bars, and tomato coulis. These foods represent popular choices based on
magazines, menus, and cookbooks
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.org also offers lists of popular dishes by each year of the 1970s decade, and also lists popular party dishes during the summer, such as"
Two Informal Summer Buffets
" that includes: 1) "Chicken or Turkey loaf, Tomatoes Stuffed with Easty Tuna Salad, Jiffy Deviled Eggs, Jellied Garden Vegetable Salad,
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Potato Salad, Danish Meat Balls, Buttered Noodles, Fresh Peach Crisp, Coffee," and 2) "Glazed and Decorated Cold Ham, Macaroni and Shellfish Salad, Bean and Beet Salad, Tomato Aspic, Parker House Rolls, Ambrosia,
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, Coffee."
For "
Two Formal Summer Buffets
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also lists a popular "Back-Yard Barbecues" menu, a "Summer Cocktail Party" menu, and a "Summer Party" menu that consists of "classic cheese fondue, french bread, apple wedges, and spiced tea."
This article states that "fondue, Jell-O, and
really anything from a mold
" was widely popular during the 70s decade, with people also putting "more emphasis on
fresh vegetables and fruit
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anything with pineapple
such as pineapple chicken became popular in the 70s due to an increase in awareness of Hawaiian culture. It also lists quiche, cheese balls and logs, salad bars that gave people
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Watergate salad
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on popular 1970s foods agrees with all the prior foods listed, and also includes fajitas, and black forest torte, both of which are perfect for summer vacations.
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