This recipe is called Green Fluff Salad or Watergate Salad. Either way, it needs to be on your Thanksgiving table. Green fluff salad for Thanksgiving Watergate Salad came from a ‘Army wife’ cookbook from Ft. Richardson, Alaska in 1979. The front of the book has a poem entitled Typical Army Wife, author unknown. I’m here to tell the story of… Read More
Up until recently I have had to keep a very big secret from my friends and acquaintances: I was a contestant in an episode of Chopped. It all started way back in November of 2018 when I received an email from a Chopped producer. She had been down a rabbit hole of retro cooking websites and found Recipe Archaeology on… Read More
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