Aspic may have been the "ridiculous food du jour" in much of the U.S. during the past 50 years or so, but it's been making a quiet, unassuming comeback in a couple of ways.

Or get real fancy and cut the set tomato aspic horizontally in half and place the shrimp salad between the two halves. Create ...

Aspic with chicken and eggs, a staple of any ‘70s dinner party (Photo by Anthony Georgeff/CC BY 2.0) Show of hands: How many of you remember dinner parties? I’m not talking about the dinner ...

But perhaps the most interesting old-school item on the new menu is the tomato aspic, a dish once found in every cookbook and fancy restaurant menu in the country.

Fancy food. Those of us who grew up in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s (and even into the early '70s) know all about the stuff ... Tomato aspic, creamed chicken or seafood, ...

This Annual Aspic Cooking Competition Is the Jell-O–Molded Stuff of Retro Dreams ... with fancy clothes and dinners. But in 2019, the year after she and Sauceda moved into their first home, ...

How fancy are they? ... If he tells you that your chicken's great, but Father doesn't feel that he's eaten unless he got baby songbirds in aspic, consider eating out instead.

Fancy food. Those of us who grew up in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s (and even into the early '70s) know all about the stuff - the "dainty" dishes that our mother or grandmother made when she was hosti… ...