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Hackman summer jug and colander

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Hackman summer
Cast your mind back and you may remember Hackman summer casserole dish, a charming piece of kitchenware featuring a great 50s-style pattern. That range has now been expanded to include more things for your kitchen, including a summer jug and a colander. 

Like the casserole dish, both items are decorated with the retro pattern of vegetables, produced by Dog Design. All the products are made from traditional enamelware, meaning the products should last you for the foreseeable future – a touch of pretty practicality for your kitchen. 

The colander costs 33 euros, while the jug is available for 19 euros. 

Buy them from Artic Design

Categories / Books, Food and Drink

Caravan Cookbook by Monica Rivron

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You can tell that caravans are cool again by the spate of books on the subject, including this Caravan Cookbook by Monica Rivron.

The Rivron family (Monica is wife of comedian Roland Rivron) have been caravanning for over 10 years, which has given them plenty of experience of preparing meals in a limited kitchen space. The book contains recipes for simple, but tasty meals, as well as guidance on what essentials to bring along from home.

The book is available from Amazon, priced £8.46.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Klippan fish tray

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Fish tray

There seem to have been a lot of fish on this site recently, from Marianne Westman's My Garden tray to the Jonathan Adler plate. Here's another slice of retro fish style, the Klippan fish tray. 

The tray is designed by Bengt & Lotta, who frequently pop up on this site, and is typical of their fun and graphic style, which frequently references traditional Scandinavian folk art. The tray is covered in fish of all sizes and shapes, decorated in different patterns and colours. 

The tray costs £18.95.

Buy it from Illustrated Living

 

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The Great British Biscuit tea towel

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This Great British Biscuit tea towel celebrates all that is good about one of our favourite teatime snacks. 

It's designed by Jill Tytherleigh and shows some British biscuit classics, such as the jammy dodger, fig roll, malted milk and digestive. Charmingly illustrated, it's bound to inspire you to reach for that tin. 

The tea towel costs £10.

Buy it from Very Nice Things

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Selfridges Selection sweets

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Selfridges sweeets

We've got a sweet tooth here at Retro To Go (or in other words, send us sweet things!), so it's hardly a surprise that we're tempted by the Selfridges Selection range of sweets.

They're old fashioned style sweets, such as strawberry and creams, sherbet pips, cola cubes and the rhubarbs and custards that are pictured, which are all handmade using traditional methods. Each style of sweets is sold in a retro style bottle, complete with retro Selfridges lettering. Great to give as a present – and probably even better to scoff for yourself. 

The sweets cost £5.09 a jar. 

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Spam Tea Towel

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Long before it became synonymous with junk emails, spam was beloved of Monty Python fans and remembered perhaps a little less fondly by people forced to eat it during wartime rationing.

Gillian Kyle has chosen to celebrate this retro meat product in her Spam Tea Towel. The 100% cotton tea towel features a line drawing in brown of the tinned meat. The design, thankfully, is much more appealing than a tin of the dubious meat product itself.

It costs £7.50 from To Dry For.