What is old is new again, or so I keep hearing. We’re in a retro revolution and I’m not complaining. My grandma has no shortage of retro salad recipes, and it’s a good excuse to make one for friends ...

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The winter holidays are here, which for many means a bounty of joy, gratitude and, at least for a couple decades there in the mid-1900s, a frightening volume of gelatin. A succulent spiral ham. A ...

Jell-O salads, so big in the 1950s and 1960s, still were going strong in 1970 if the Duluth News Tribune's cookbook that year is any indication. No big gatherings, no church suppers and no ladies ...

There was a time — about 65 years ago — when a jiggly fruit- or meat-filled gelatin dish was the centerpiece of nearly every Christmas table. When the sight of shrimp encased in clear jelly and ...