Thanks so much for the shout-out! I'm Robin, and I spent a year doing the Throwback of the House project, making a recipe a week. I had a great time doing it, believe it or not. Mostly because it's fun to watch my husband spit out compound butter with anchovy paste while screaming, "Why the fuck do you hate people?!"

Since I had a 350-word limit on each piece, I didn't get to go as in-depth on the history of why in the hell such foods ever existed. The culinary history of the last half of the 20th century reads like a terrifying comedy.