In a 1973 piece on the Pillsbury Bake-Off, the late Nora Ephron mentions that GE is a cosponsor and that year is giving the winner a microwave oven,
an appliance we were repeatedly told was the biggest improvement in cooking since the Willoughby System. Every one of the food editors seemed to know what the Willoughby System was.
I don't. Anyone?
Cross-posted on SiT.
I don't either. Further, if you can't find it by googling chances are most have no idea either.
1973, a microwave oven?
Must be the time when they were being introduced on the market, I guess. 40 years?!
It's funny to think today how they were supposed to revolutionise cooking.
The one I have is from the seventies. A friend inherited it from her mother and passed it on to me when she inherited her father's.
