A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes, by Late Maître d’Hôtel and Chief Cook to Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria Charles Francatelli, a 1993 […]
Category: Musings
The difference between 10am and 7pm…
is the difference between this post and my previous Sunday posts. Wonderful four-mile walk today. I am doing more of these, and with more energy, […]
1000 books: The American Frugal Housewife.
When did I get so many old cookbooks? The American Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria Child, a fascinating antislavery and women’s rights activist, originally published […]
1000 books: The Ladies’ Floral Calendar.
We’re heading into a slew of vintage and antique books about householding and cooking, now. The first is The Ladies’ Floral Calendar and Household Receipt […]
Five things, not all birds, birds, birds.
Fall is here, and the leaves are astonishing. I have taken what feel like hundreds of pictures of the fallen leaves from some local tree: […]
1000 books: Buddhist Cosmology. Finally.
Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins, from Akira Sadakata (1997). This did take a while: a detailed description of Mahāyāna and pre-Mahāyāna cosmology, with many diagrams. […]
1000 books: Pictorial Key to the Tarot.
Still not done with Buddhist Cosmology, but meanwhile we have The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite, originally published in 1910. I feel […]
Five things: writing and not writing.
I have a project I need to start, but I have been having a lot of trouble shifting from American Tour to the new thing. […]
Patreon locked post: American Tour Words, 12.
We’re solidly into Chapter Three right now. Beryl, Mole and Rabbit on their way to Chicago! https://www.patreon.com/posts/43411967