Following on from my thoughts about incorporating some of the best ideas of the 1960s and 50s into modern meals, the next essential you need is a good vintage cook book.
Back in those days money was tight and books were an expensive item but every family had a much-used and often quite old cookery book that was both read for its own sake and referred to for special meals. My mother, an excellent cook, still had two or three books for inspiration but that was all she needed.
One staple book, I remember, was the Good Housekeeping Cookery book which was first published just after the Second World War and, amazingly, is still in print (although now updated of course).
No one would want to go back to a 1960s (or worse a 1950s) kitchen with its primitive appliances and lack of storage but perhaps vintage cooking is about combining the best of the old with the convenience of the new.
I recently acquired from the internet an old copy of Woman’s Weekly for 14 May 1960 and I thought it would be interesting to look and see what was inside and to see how different life was in those far off days and also how different (or similar) magazines were.