Waiter - The Retro Edition

Remember the 1970s? The flares, the platform heels, the car keys in a bowl? Umm, maybe not so much the last one...! Moving along. I was a kid in the 1970's and remember watching this fantastically glamorous world passing below me at my parents' parties while my brother and I hid in the mezzanine level study and watched. I also remember vividly the dishes that were served up and how endlessly chic they seemed to me. Melba toast, steak Diane, baked Alaska, avocado ritz... the stuff of dreams and impossibly sophisticated from my pre-teen perspective.

Today, it would take a brave man to put these on a menu, unless it was in a sorta kinda post-modernist, witty and ironic way. But what I'm asking YOU to do this month is to embrace the retro chef inside who's dying to get out. The challenge for Waiter, There's Something in My... for April is to prepare a retro classic of your choice. It can be a starter, main course, dessert or snack - let your imagination run wild! Cast your tastebuds back to the 1970s and see what they remember.

Here is the fineprint:

1. Write up your retro classic dish on your blog, remembering to include a link back to this announcement in your post. Please do not submit an old post - dishes should be made specifically for this event.

2. E-mail me. Please make sure that Waiter there's something in my features in the subject line.

3. In the e-mail please include:

your name
your blog's name and URL
the URL of your entry
the name of the dish
your approximate location