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. […]
Locked Patreon post: American Tour words, 15.
Beryl, Mole, and Rabbit in Chicago: Beryl’s first lectures! Next week, off to Chapter Four…. https://www.patreon.com/posts/44181440
All the little taillights.
Nine days ago, for the first time since well before the pandemic started, I drove somewhere. Since my Subaru is still not working properly (after […]
1000 books: Arethusa, Lady Harland’s Commonplace Book
Arethusa, Lady Harland’s Commonplace Book: Memorandums of Various Sorts Made Between 1827 and 1833 By Arethusa Lady Harland at Orwell Park and Richmond Terrace, reprinted […]
1000 books: Yet Another Cookbook.
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 […]