Saints, Souls, and Haints: Apples
In Rustic Speech and Folk-lore (1911, p. 299-300), Elizabeth Mary Wright describes a Halloween custom we still practice: October 31 …
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cabbages and Rings
In Rustic Speech and Folk-lore (1913, p. 300), Elizabeth Mary Wright wrote: In parts of Ireland a dish called colcannon, …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Eggs
From Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volume 4, published in 1896, by the American Folklore Society, folk beliefs about …
Idylls of Cuisine, #34
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]* *Demon eyeballs, click on photo for recipe. Note: for the next two …
Ghosts of Gourmet: Ann Seranne
About three days ago, caught in the throes of egg cookery, I realized that Ann Seranne’s name doesn’t ring a …
The Chicken or the Egg? 5. To Market, To Market
Cooks cook eggs in a plethora of ways. And vendors sell eggs in a myriad of ways. The following photo …
The Chicken or the Egg? 4. Egging Us On
A few days ago, I thumbed through the brand-new, hot-off-the-press version of Larousse Gastronomique. You know, Julia Child’s bedtime reading. …
The Chicken or the Egg? 3. Instructions to the Cook
Eggs a guilty pleasure? There’s a reason for that. Thanks to Dr. Thomas Royle Dawber’s research team and the famous …
The Chicken or the Egg? 2. The Cooking of Eggs
There is reason in roasting of eggs! ~~~ James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides In nineteenth-century America, …
The Chicken or the Egg? 1. The Egg and Art*
The egg it is where it was at for Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, who once said, rather egotistically (!), …
