For some of us, the 1990s seem like only yesterday, but we need to face the facts: Nirvana is now played in elevators, MTV no longer exists as we knew it, and landline telephones can be found in antiques stores. Not everything from that decade is passé, however. Nineties' fashion is making a revival and '90s food is also making a comeback, as SBS Food reports.

Genoese pesto (Pesto Genovese) from Cook Italy by Katie Caldesi

The foods and drinks that pop into my mind when I think of the 90s are sun-dried tomatoes, pesto, and cosmopolitans. Pesto and sun-dried tomatoes find a home in SBS Foods' list, alongside bruschetta, fettuccine alfredo, potato wedges, and stir fries—all classics from the era. The article provides recipes that update some of the decade's flavors, for instance, replacing dry soup mix with fish sauce in apricot chicken and giving malted milk powder a sophisticated upgrade in pots de crème.

One could argue that none of the iconic 90s foods ever truly went away, but I notice a significant gap in recipes that call for sun-dried tomatoes in my cookbook collection. From the early 2000s until just a couple of y ears ago they popped up only a handful of times. I had almost forgotten they existed! Pesto weathered the intervening years better, staying relevant by being adaptable to different ingredients. Pesto in the '90s (in the US, at least) was strictly basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese. I'm sure someone back then was making pesto with different nuts and herbs, but you wouldn't know it from recipes in that era's cookbooks.

Nostalgia around childhood foods means that things like Pop-Tarts and Hot Pockets are also enjoying a minor renaissance. While the Cosmopolitan's revival seems to be short-lived, espresso martinis are also back and arguably more popular than ever (probably because it's easier for bars to make decent espresso now). What iconic '90s foods are your favorites? For me it's fettuccine alfredo.