Meat and Romance (1940)
What do you get when you combine "Three Magic Words", "With an All-Star Cast", "Cooking Terms and What They Mean", and "Carving Magic"? You get "Meat and Romance", the tender tale of yet another newlywed wife who never learned to cook (didn't any school offer home economics back then?). Fortunately for her, her sister- and father-in-law show up (unannounced), and sis is a "famous home economist" (which is pounded into our brains more times than humanly necessary), and she takes our heroine to the butcher shop for a long lecture on different cuts of meat, then back to the kitchen to show her how to cook them (while shapeshifting). Then her husband (played by Alan Ladd a year before his triumphant role as "Reporter with Pipe" in "Citizen Kane") proves to be equally cloddish when it comes to carving the meat. But everything eventually works out, and they saunter into the living room for a less than exciting conversation about vitamins (remind me never to go over there for dinner). Then, to top it all off, the wife peruses a magazine full of color pictures (the short is B&W up to this point) of some amazingly unappetizing meat dishes. It has to be seen to be believed, and you can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYbibAsFw_4