Peregrinations and Pilgrimages: Egeria and the Flour Soup
Rocks tumbled down the rugged sloping ground and dust spun like little tops as Egeria, a nun from early fourth-century …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Peregrinations and Pilgrimages: Legendary Scallops
A long time ago, I read a novel about a young woman who made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. …
Idylls of Cuisine, #81
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Hildegard von Bingen, First Female Food Writer in the West?
You may have come a long way, baby, but it’s taken a while. Food historians generally agree that Sabina Welserin …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Elizabeth David
Foxed, spotted, acid-rich, the paper crackles under the slightest touch of my hands. The book’s an old Penguin paperback, worth …
Idylls of Cuisine, #80
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: The Other Mrs. (Lydia) Child
Events constantly reinforce the old saying, “History repeats itself.” Like the other Mrs. Child (Julia, that is), Mrs. Lydia Maria …
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: The Other Mrs. (Abby) Fisher
Before M. F. K. Fisher, sometimes known as plain Mrs. Fisher, there was Mrs. Abby Fisher. And Abby Fisher’s personage …
Idylls of Cuisine, #79
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Elizabeth Robins Pennell
A Victorian M. F. K. Fisher? Maybe. Certainly M. F. K. Fisher knew of Elizabeth Pennell, for she says in …
