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Singers and Swingers In The Kitchen

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Feeling hungry? Thought so. How do you fancy a little something from the ‘scene-makers cookbook’? Or as the cover notes say: ‘Dozens of nutty, turned-on, easy-to-prepare recipes from the grooviest gourmets happening.’

Now before you start sniggering, the term ‘swingers’ meant something a lot different in the 1960s to what it does now and for those of you unfamiliar with 60s hip-cat speak, back in the day a swinger was a person who was, if you like, hip and trendy – not a wife-swapper, or to be entirely PC a partner-swapper as we believe swinging is known now. Not that we know that much about it of course.

So, here we have a cookbook with recipes allegedly written by the stars of the day. Whether they actually contributed said recipes is a moot point and to a certain extent irrelevant but it’s fun to imagine Simon & Garfunkel or Leonard Nimoy sweating over a hot stove struggling to get their chosen recipe just-so before they submit it for publication.

 

Singers and Swingers

 

Simon and Garfunkel

 

The Rolling Stones

 

Leonard Nimoy

 

Barbra Streisand

 

Noel HArrison

 

 

The Cyrkle

 

 

Dig The Kitchen

 Pictures from Retro Food For Modern Times

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