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A day late, the week in review.
The whole week felt randomized and blurry, as though I was seeing through a fog of some sort. I still am on schedule to complete […]
Foods of my people, part 2.
There were so many Norwegian foods I posted about! It wasn’t always that the food was vile (though sometimes it was) or bland or a […]
Foods of my People, redux.
It all started in January 2008, when a livejournal friend, copperwise, sent me a lovely Norwegian sweater (which I still have), some antique walrus mammoth […]
1000 books: all those Scandinavian cookbooks!
There were so many of these…. Norse Cookery: A Cook Book of Popular Norwegian Recipes (1960), no author, published by the College City Press, in […]
Five things.
Monday of last week, I decided I wanted a tree, and since Cottin’s hardware had just posted about their trailer-load of Michigan trees, I went […]
1000 books: Time Cat.
This isn’t quite one of the 1000. I read this as a child, and I owned a copy as an adult, but at some point […]
Solo holiday 2020: how to.
In the past fifteen years I’ve spent most of my holidays without a partner, away from family, often in towns where I have only one […]
1000 books: another Receipt Book.
I think this might be the last of my Very Old Cookbooks: possibly the most interesting of them. The Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe, A.D. […]