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I found it interesting (but did not stop to really look at it till this morning) that all the covers had touches of humor, until the one in 1966 - where the art was straightforward - beautiful but without the humorous dig towards the theatre of dining that existed in all the previous covers.

And of course 1966 (ha - I just typed 1066 by mistake, that would have been funny) was around the time when Julia Child and James Beard were first seriously being known "far and wide" in the US. Perhaps the self-consciousness of what was possible and what was existing in terms of "cuisine" entered at that time in general thought and therefore appeared in the cover art. No longer a thing of humor but instead a rather serious thing.

The last covers show this, too. Three in a row by Theibaud, with only the first having any lightness of aura to it - the rest rather pompous and flat (though beautiful).

That's a very nice thing to see, JEP (and thank you to Marissa also).

Here I was all day long thinking people were reading the post and saying "New Yorker covers. Meh. Where am I going to get a decent meatball sandwich for lunch is what I want to know."

I'm surprised though that there were only twenty-one food covers in all those years of publication. Time for more, more more perhaps?