Old Movies Online: Space Age Cookingby Kendall

This old cooking video, “Preparation of Foods: Stone Age to Space Age,” gives a brief overview of old cooking techniques and moves quickly into Space Age cooking techniques, shamelessly plugging the amazing capabilities of the microwave and how it brought us into the 20th century.

Microwaves? Truth be told, except for a brief 6-month stint, I haven’t owned one of those things since college, when I lived off Ramen and Easy Mac. Why anyone would voluntarily eat Easy Mac is beyond me now. I got my fill of it then. Now, microwaves conjure up terrible images of drunken eating binges, reheated coffee from the day before, and pulling all-nighters. I’d just as rather not have one.

Maybe this movie will convince me: