Idylls of Cuisine, #36

November 1, 2009

[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]

Halloween: Art

October 31, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! For more on the Day of the Dead in Mexico, see my previous post: Día de los Muertos …

October 30, 2009

About All Souls’ Day (November 2), Sir James George Frazer wrote detailed notes in The Golden Bough: a Study in …

October 29, 2009

Trick-or-treating may well have originated in the old custom of “souling,” as people went from house to house, begging ( …

October 28, 2009

About All Souls’ Day (November 2), Sir James George Frazer wrote in The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and …