Aspic with chicken and eggs, a staple of any ‘70s dinner party (Photo by Anthony Georgeff/CC BY 2.0) Show of hands: How many of you remember dinner parties? I’m not talking about the dinner ...

—70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) November 21, 2015 This seems to be green beans, sliced carrots, and some sort of diced meat suspended perfectly in aspic. —70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) December ...

Not every popular food trend from the '70s seems that weird today. Some dishes that were wildly popular back then are still popular in 2025. Quiche, for instance, had a major moment in the '70s ...

This Annual Aspic Cooking Competition Is the Jell-O–Molded Stuff of ... Barbee, it started as farmland and grew to a 2.2-square-mile city, with houses largely built in the 1960s and ’70s, ...

Have Yourself a Very '70s Christmas Dinner. Tasteful and understated: ... In short, Christmas Day should be like the whole of the seventies rolled into one and molded in aspic.

In a large bowl, combine 1/2 cup of the tomato juice with the gelatin; let stand for 5 minutes. In a saucepan, combine the remaining tomato juice with the sugar, salt, pickling spices, hot sauce ...

The '70s weren't subtle, and tomato aspic and fussy coconut cakes are appropriately flamboyant. This is the decade, after all, that kindled the appeal of fiery food.

For those who experienced it firsthand, and for those who binge reproductions of it on prestige serials a half-century later, the ’70s remains an understandably satisfying era to fantasize about.

The idea of a 15-disc box set to commemorate the release of what was, in 1973, a single vinyl LP clocking in at a mere 46 minutes might seem a tad excessive, but when you're talking King Crimson and ...