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Bush foods: Tuesday's food quotation

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:32:50 +0100

Rosie continued on the imaginary walkabout. Cutting out a palm-heart, and some lawyer cane, and boiling them up. Looking for...

Improving frozen chicken: Monday's food quotation

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:13:07 +0100

Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or...

Harvest Home supper: Sunday's food quotation

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:50:58 +0100

On the morning of the harvest home dinner everybody prepared themselves for a tremendous feast, some to the extent of...

The worst traits of English cooking: Saturday's food quotation

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:36:10 +0100

The meal was already on the table when they entered the room. A dish of mince with tomato sauce spread...

Ideal and real nutrition: Friday's food quotation

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:30:44 +0100

I can take Katherine Whitehorn's remark a stage further: foods are fattening because they are nice. If one ate exclusively...

The ultimate destiny of a goose: Thursday's food quotation

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:18:05 +0100

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would...

Beef is a poor substitute for venison: Wednesday's food quotation

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:21:57 +0100

... till one of the clock, at which time we made an end; and I went home and took my...

Choice of meat in the Greek islands: Tuesday's food quotation

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:01:36 +0100

But beef is rare within these oxless isles;

Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton;

And, when a holiday...

Junk = salt meat: Monday's food quotation

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:38:22 +0100

Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and...

An Englishman fait chabrot: Sunday's food quotation

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:53:34 +0100

For the first time I was asked to have lunch with M. et Mme Vinges, our nearest neighbours and closest...

A classically simple supper: Saturday's food quotation

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:33:18 +0100

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that...

Why Philip Larkin favoured the EU: Friday's food quotation

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:43:01 +0100

One forgets that nobody stays in hotels these days except businessmen & American tourists: the food is geared to the...

Italian digital library

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:24:16 +0100

Liber Liber, a rich Italian digital library

Visitor's tea: Thursday's food quotation

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:22:49 +0100

Downstairs, the table was laid with a 'visitor's tea'. There were the best tea things with a fat pink rose...

The inexorable spread of oleomargarine: Wednesday's food quotation

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:46 +0100

Speaking of manufactures reminds me of a talk upon that topic which I heard--which I overheard--on board the Cincinnati boat....

Golden Chicken: Tuesday's food quotation

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:29:39 +0100

A couple have celebrated their golden anniversary by eating a tinned chicken given to them on their wedding day. Les...

D. H. Lawrence as vegetable gardener

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:40:19 +0100

[Zennor, Cornwall:] For the rest, what is there to say? — I have made wonderful gardens, where things grew by...

Links to dictionaries, especially French and English

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:36:45 +0100

A useful collection of links

Judging doughnuts: Sunday's food quotation

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:49:03 +0100

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and...

Po-boys =/= Subs

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:04:05 +0100

Can you tell the difference between po-boys and subs (hint: both are sandwiches)? If not, read this thread on

Grits = White Polenta

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:32:00 +0100

If you're not sure whether what Italians call polenta is the same as what Americans call grits (it is, according...

Frugal cruising: Saturday's food quotation

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:03:23 +0100

The eating regime on board went as follows: breakfast ... lunch ... happy hour ... and dinner (grilled red snapper...

Paris restaurants: Friday's food quotation

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:35:52 +0100

Ten cooks' shops! ... and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world...

Crêpes Suzette in Llangattock: Thursday's food quotation

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:05:09 +0100

I am off to Carmarthenshire next week to eat Crêpes Suzettes at the Red Lion in Llangattock, a hideous village...

Not-so-frugal breakfast: Wednesday's food quotation

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:36:36 +0100

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of...

Workers' supper: Tuesday's food quotation

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:57:45 +0100

Supper was at nine. There were cakes, buns, sandwiches, tea, and coffee, all free; but if you wanted mineral water...

Food plants in Britain: archaeological evidence

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:56:21 +0100

As a survey on this subject I have thus far used, and cited, J. R. Greig, 'Plant foods in the...

A Golden Age: Monday's food quotation

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:48:51 +0100

From the greengrocer tree you get grapes and green pea, cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries,

While the pastrycook plant cherry brandy will...

Indo-European languages: dating the splits

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:46:45 +0100

In Linguistica Brunensia, year 2005, there are two interesting papers on Indo-European philology. In one, Vaclav Blazek collaborates with...

Anglo-Saxon Plant Names

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:27:07 +0100

Here's the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey and here's a thread discussing it in soc.hist.medieval