The Saturday Evening Post articles from January 1995

The Saturday Evening Post archives from January 1995

World-class casseroles. (includes recipes)
January 1, 1995... Greeks meld lamb, tomato, ricotta cheese, and spaghetti in a tasty creation called pasteetsah. Finns make a rib-sticking maksalaatikko with liver, rice, and molasses. Brazilians concoct exotic combinations of chicken or seafood, fruit, rice, and...

Fiber, si! Fat, no! (Mexican food) (includes recipes)
January 1, 1995... Contrary to popular belief, Mexican food need not be a hotbed of fat and cholesterol. Just ask dietitians at the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas. In their new book, What's Cooking at the Cooper Clinic?, Georgia G. Kostas, R.D., and Veronica C....

Willie Was Different.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... Before Norman Rockwell achieved fame as a cover illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, his work appeared in such children's magazines as St. Nicholas and Boy's Life. In Willie Was Different--his only work of fiction--Rockwell returned to his...

Life After Lucy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1995... Fans of "I Love Lucy" will find great wealth of information on what many consider the greatest TV situation comedy of all time in Life After Lucy, written by the man who played Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz' fictitious son, "Little Ricky Ricardo,"...

Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir.
January 1, 1995... "God Bless America." "There's No Business Like Show Business." "Puttin' on the Ritz." "White Christmas." These songs, among hundreds of others, define not merely a generation but the entire 20th-century American way of life. Irving Berlin, the...

Talking with Tony. (singer Tony Bennett) (Interview)
January 1, 1995... Post: You've done 200 dates this year all over the world. You're 68 and still in great shape. How do you do it? TB: You learn, you know, in life to finally take care of yourself. When you're young, you just don't know quite how to do it. I...

The greatest gift. (organ donation) (includes related articles)
January 1, 1995... When bandits fatally shot seven-year-old Nicholas Green of California while the family was vacationing in southern Italy, his grieving parents made a difficult decision. Nicholas' life had been wasted in a senseless tragedy, but the boy's...

Eating out of hand. (forks)
January 1, 1995... The next time you stuff yourself with a huge meal and leave the dining room table in guilt and your diet in ruins, consider this fact: each year the ordinary person eats about 1,417 pounds of food. That's about 4 pounds of food every day. And...

The unwelcome tourists. (fiction)
January 1, 1995... When he had showered and put on a change of clothes, Andrew Hollis went down to the hotel desk to see about putting the car away. It was not a good idea to leave one's car on the street at night in these small towns off the beaten tourist track....

Country living - as it's called. (satire)
January 1, 1995... I'm afraid my dear wife has been spending too much time under the hair dryer. The result has been her half-baked idea of moving from our snug apartment in Indianapolis to this...this house, for want of a better word (the word "hovel" now comes to...

Cleaning up indoor allergens.
January 1, 1995... Do you sneeze a lot, have a constant runny nose, sinus troubles, or suffer from itchy, flaky skin? If so, you may be nursing an allergy, possibly to something right in your own home. Outside allergens such as ragweed pollen or grass may take...

In celebration of cherubs. (Saturday Evening Post covers)
January 1, 1995... Why a cover illustrator would choose a cherub to symbolize the new year comes easily to mind. Other than a "winged celestial being" and "one of the second order of angels," the dictionary also defines "cherub" as a "beautiful or innocent person,...