Christmas in Antebellum Virginia: Part I
What is now the state of Virginia boasted the first permanent English settlement in North America. Despite its rocky beginnings …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Idylls of Cuisine, #40
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Christmas Cheer, or, Fire Up the Reindeer
Black Friday marks the first “official” day of Christmas, er, shopping, that is. (You know it’s almost Christmas when the …
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL! For more vintage Thanksgiving postcards, see my post about them from last year: Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards.
To the Cooks, Prosit! Part II
He turns the spit who never tasted a morsel from it. Proverbes en Rimes, no. 117. Continuing our salute to …
Breaking: State Dinner Menu Released
Potato and Eggplant Salad White House Arugula w/ Onion Seed Vinaigrette 2008 Savingnon Blanc, Modus Operandi, Napa Valley Red Lentil …
To the Cooks, Prosit! Part I
Sir Thomas More in his Utopia (1516), in delineating what would make an ideal society, said: .. all vyle service, …
Idylls of Cuisine, #39
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Today’s post is number 500!
Why Cookbooks?
Why on earth so many cookbooks, when no one cooks? Or do they? Read Adam Gopnik’s thoughts in the latest …
Feasting in State: Obama’s First Real State Dinner
In the next week, we will see real-time examples of a few of the different types of feasts common to …
