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 […]
Tag: things i read
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]