Idylls of Cuisine, #52
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] *I usually don’t write anything for these “picture-only” posts, but I encourage …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Lent, According to American Cookery, the Magazine, That is
Lent can be a really interesting time of the year. For some of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, a …
Food Studies: A How-To Guidebook, a Bit Underdone
Since one of my primary interests is methodology for studying food in history, when I learned that Berg Publishers recently …
Idylls of Cuisine, #51
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The Eels of Hannah, Or, Hannah Glasse’s Lenten Recipes
Poor Hannah Glasse. Literally. Except for Martha Stewart, she may be the only cookery book writer who did hard time …
The Art of Ash Wednesday: Omnia vanitas
Ash Wednesday, not a day for feasting, but rather for fasting and contemplating the fleetingness of life and all its …
Shrovetide Pancakes — A Shrove Tuesday Tradition
Shriven/Shrove: archaic : to confess one’s sins, especially to a priest* When they heard the “pancake bell,” people flocked to …
Idylls of Cuisine, #50
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Butterfly of Winter — Fabergé’s Mardi Gras Egg
“Carnival is a Butterfly of Winter whose last mad flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.” ~ Perry Young, …
The Black Fast, a Mortification of the Appetite
With Lent fast approaching (February 17, 2010), an examination of fasting and other fleshly challenges seems apropos. Religious-based fasting, in …
