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 …
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] *I usually don’t write anything for these “picture-only” posts, but I encourage …
Lent can be a really interesting time of the year. For some of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, a …
Since one of my primary interests is methodology for studying food in history, when I learned that Berg Publishers recently …
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Poor Hannah Glasse. Literally. Except for Martha Stewart, she may be the only cookery book writer who did hard time …
Ash Wednesday, not a day for feasting, but rather for fasting and contemplating the fleetingness of life and all its …
Shriven/Shrove: archaic : to confess one’s sins, especially to a priest* When they heard the “pancake bell,” people flocked to …
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
“Carnival is a Butterfly of Winter whose last mad flight of Mardi Gras forever ends his glory.” ~ Perry Young, …
With Lent fast approaching (February 17, 2010), an examination of fasting and other fleshly challenges seems apropos. Religious-based fasting, in …