Retro Recipes - An Evening with Bobby Hicks

Tue Jun 30 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

Tombolo Books | St. Petersburg

Tombolo Books
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Retro Recipes - An Evening with Bobby Hicks
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Bobby Hicks and Dalia Colón at Tombolo Books!
About this Event

Nostalgia is in, and Bobby Hicks knows nostalgia! As the charming host of TikTok’s Retro Recipes Kitchen, he regularly gives loving updates to classic American staples and ingredients like boxed cake mixes, canned soups, and more to suit today’s tastes.

Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome Hicks along with local food writer and host of NPR's The Zest, Dalia Colón!

In his dazzling debut cookbook, Retro Recipes, he features a treasure trove of culinary nostalgia, everything from all-time favorites to lesser-known fare, including Lazy Daisy Cake, Brown Sugar Meatloaf, Chicken Divan, and Eggs Eiffel Tower. Bobby has done his homework and provides colorful historical context for each dish.

Complete with vibrant photography and one-of-a-kind illustrations, this cookbook is the perfect addition to the vintage cooking canon.

Based in Florida, Bobby Hicks is the creator behind Retro Recipes Kitchen, a recipe blog chronicling vintage dishes. Hicks recently finished as a semifinalist on Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef, and his work has been featured on Tastemade, BuzzFeed, and more.

Dalia Colón is an Emmy Award–winning multimedia journalist. She is executive producer and host of The Zest podcast from WUSF Public Media and the NPR Network, and associate producer and cohost of WEDU Arts Plus on Tampa Bay’s PBS station. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, and Gravy, the journal of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

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Tombolo Books, 2153 1st Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States

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