✦ Meet the team
Shelly
Chief Investigator
Department of Vintage Recipe Recovery
Duties include Tracking down forgotten recipes, collecting culinary artifacts, photographing evidence, and reporting findings to the public.
You can also find me on my new Flickr account, where a real human (me) shares recipes and my photography - 😊
Favorite Movie: American Graffiti
Favorite Vintage Dish: Cornflake Hash Brown Casserole
Next up… Joan
Joan Here…
Joan
Chief Domestic Scientist
Vintage By The Bite Research Laboratories
Duties include Conducting recipe trials, supervising taste inspections, documenting kitchen experiments, and approving recipes for the public.
Favorite Movie: Johnny Guitar
Favorite Color: Lime Sherbet Green
Welcome to Vintage by the Bite
Vintage by the Bite is a vintage food preservation passion project dedicated to the recipes, food culture, dining traditions, and everyday life of the 1950s through the 1980s with a little tongue-in-cheek humor along the way.
Think of it as a browsable vintage food magazine for the internet age. Alongside tested recipes and original food photography, you'll find forgotten restaurants, celebrity recipes, vintage advertisements, newspaper clippings, entertaining ideas, food history, and carefully curated collections that help preserve the stories behind what people ate and how they lived.
And yes, there's a little shop, too.
New discoveries are added regularly across the blog, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and our ever-growing Vintage Recipe Library.
What You'll Discover
✦ 200+ nostalgic recipes across the blog and recipe library.
✦ 1,900+ preserved recipes in Grandma's Vintage Recipe Collection on Pinterest.
✦ Recipe Paper Trail features tracing recipes back to their original sources whenever possible.
✦ Fun Retro Facts tucked between the recipes, sharing bits of food history, pop culture, and everyday life from decades past.
Whether you're here to cook, research, reminisce with Shelly and Joan, or simply browse, we hope Vintage by the Bite feels a little like opening a well-loved vintage magazine and finding something you weren't expecting.
✦ Take A Look Inside Vintage By The Bite
Headings
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Lost Recipes & Forgotten Dining
Featured Sections
Roadside Americana
Retro Food Stories & Pop Culture (celebrities)
Mid-Century Favorites
Featured Sections
Found in the Archives
Featured Sections
Recipe Paper Trail
Newspaper Clippings
Vintage Advertisements
Vintage Cookbooks
From Box to WoW!
Retro Sips & Vintage Desserts
Featured Sections
Vintage by the Bite Originals
Featured Sections
Retro DIY Rescue
Kitchen Adventures
Official Notice
Vintage By The Bite Research Laboratories
Joan is a fictional character employed by the fictional Vintage By The Bite Research Laboratories. She has no formal education in Home Economics, Domestic Science, or laboratory sciences, despite carrying a clipboard with complete confidence.
Any references to laboratory procedures, official investigations, or scientific findings are presented with a generous helping of tongue-in-cheek humor.
The vintage recipes, historical research, photography, and recipe testing, however, are very real.
