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e time december 2024 i wrote a very brief review what would the area around st louis where i grew up be like if all post european arrival history had been different here s a speculative and suspenseful fiction about the answer now i m reading spufford s next book and it s amazing and quite different i ll post a review of it when i finish reading blog post 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 11 28 am 4 comments labels francis spufford london ursula le guin monday april 13 2026 blossom time early edition photos 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 10 05 am 8 comments labels spring sunday april 12 2026 watching tv and reading netflix a history of the new yorker magazine watching a documentary about the famous new yorker magazine it brought back memories of reading it since i was in college i haven t read it recently as much as i used to maybe start again reading this week concentrating on this book seemed very challenging as i read it because the authors range widely through history the seven cheap things are nature money work care food energy and lives p 7 the time frame is the last several hundred years the geographic extent of the phenomena that the authors cover is also broad although europe features in it capitalism s story isn t a eurocentric one the rise of capitalism integrated life and power from potosí to manila from goa to amsterdam p 90 i ve tried to select some quotes to capture some of the key points of the book though i admit that i m very challenged by reading it and i might not understand it very well cheap money is at the heart of history say the authors although as benjamin franklin wrote in 1789 in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes cheap money links the two the modern art of war became a way to turn gold and blood into capital p 80 the authors think in terms of categories of people mainly binary categories that defined humanity and all its activities at the origins of capitalism strategies used to corral indigenous peoples into the pen of nature were also used to create and manage a category of humans who would perform unpaid care work women human bodies were forced sometimes medically and always juridically into one of two inescapable categories man and woman the resulting entangled binaries of society nature man woman and paid work unpaid work have left us with a way of thinking that has committed humans in capitalism s world ecology to making spectacular oversights we continue to think of real work solely as wage work and forget the care work that makes it all possible p 116 food to feed the people who did the work is another important consideration cheap food is cheap in a specific sense more calories produced with less average labor time in the commodity system p 143 through cheap food societies succeed hunger in contrast began to matter politically only when the poor came to the cities and translated it into anger and thence potentially into insurrection and a challenge to the rule of cheap nature p 149 however cheap food regimes guarantee neither that people are fed nor that they are fed well as the global persistence of diet related ill health and malnutrition can attest p 158 capitalism may have claimed the new world with guns germs and steel but the new world s order was kept through race police and profits capitalism s ecology has shaped the modern nation state and vice versa through the colonial frontier through the interactions between early capitalists and savages and through the technologies of communication that capitalism fostered at its inception p 180 181 all in all i m overwhelmed by the enormous amount of detail in this book do i really understand it blog post 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 9 00 am 6 comments labels american economic history food hunger new york tv saturday april 11 2026 our world we watched the landing it s hard to believe this adventure is real but it is posted by mae travels at 2 45 am 13 comments labels voyage to the moon friday april 10 2026 an old favorite my blog has dozens of pancake recipes and photos of pancakes that i have made or that we ve eaten somewhere else somehow i have missed one favorite cottage cheese pancakes along with one or two other favorites it came from a very old baking book that we have had for years this morning len made the pancakes today s pancakes have added blueberries we like real maple syrup on all kinds of pancakes recipe cottage cheese pancakes 2 oz butter 1 cup cottage cheese 4 beaten eggs 1 2 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 tablespoons milk optional add a few berries or raisins melt butter stir in cottage cheese fold in eggs then other ingredients cook pancakes on very hot griddle eat with maple syrup original recipe recipe as it appears in the very old cookbook when we make pancakes we double this recipe as it appears above the two of us eat most of the pancakes blog post 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 3 33 pm 6 comments labels pancakes thursday april 09 2026 nobody son of nobody a novel by yann martel in the iliad not a single commoner speaks with one notable exception homer s omniscient perspective closely aligns with the point of view of the greek ruling class it is an aristocratic perspective whereas here in the fictitious epic the psoad a commoner speaks so much he practically filibusters p 62 son of nobody alternates between two stories one modern in the us and england and one in the ancient world of the trojan war the link between the stories is a classical scholar who has discovered a new epic about the greeks at troy the psoad the history of a common soldier named psoas this scholar works at a library in oxford while his wife and child have remained in america at the beginning of each chapter of martell s novel we read an excerpt from the newly discovered epic which of course exists only in the novel following each excerpt we read the story of the scholar as he hears from his wife who resents his absence from their home while he s in oxford tragedy strikes their child dies of a sudden infection martell suggests connections and similarities between the modern and ancient stories i find the situation of a very sick child and remote father to be poignant though contrived throughout there are vivid and significant details such as the appearance of the pottery fragment where the previously unknown epic was recorded emotions like the suffering of the family the grief of a bereaved father and the fear of the mother all are vivid but collectively the descriptive passages somehow did not come together for me i don t think the book succeeds as far as i can discover the character psoas along with his name and the epic about him are the creation of martel not taken from ancient myth or history there is an english word psoas which refers to a long ribbon shaped muscle in your back it starts at your lower back and runs through your pelvis to the top of your femur source i see no connection between the word s meaning and the character in the novel in short i find the novel a bit puzzling and not entirely satisfying artifacts from homer s era from our trip in 2025 as i read i was thinking about the objects we saw last summer when visiting the greek islands a pottery fragment from the time of the homeric epic the temptation is to see truth in the rational and mere embellishment in the myth p 229 blog post 2026 photos 2025 mae sander posted by mae travels at 7 01 am 10 comments labels greece 2025 history homer yann martel monday april 06 2026 quiet sunday tana french the keeper this book is too long there is a detective story in it but the author seems much more interested in describing the complex relationships among dozens of inhabitants of the little irish town where cal hooper an american policeman has retired but where he gets no peace i forced myself to read to the end by the time the one and only death in the story was explained i didn t really care occasionally i found some amusing mentions of food in the book especially raspberry jam that one of the women puts up in little jars and gifts to several other women an action that becomes enmeshed in the plot detective cal likes to cook even though he only took it up out of a belief that trey his daughter needed to eat something other than hamburgers and grilled cheese and whatever boiled into submission stuff her mother came up with now he tries fancy things all the time and mostly they work out p 180 at a cafe that s central to the action the food isn t very good mostly fried eggs and toasties but the cozy atmosphere is important especially in contrast to the nastiness that is a big part of life in the town and not just the mystery part it s a depressing town as exemplified here the townland is scattered with these places homes emptied by famine in the 1840s orphaned by emigration in the seventies left behind in the millennium rush to easier city jobs mostly no one bothers to knock them down p 356 i ve read all of tana french s earlier police and detective stories and i think i liked them better than this one the power plant besides reading we took a sunday afternoon walk along the huron river review 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 7 16 am 12 comments labels food in detective fiction tana french thursday april 02 2026 happy passover wednesday evening was the start of passover and we celebrated with a few other people this photo shows the ritual items the matzoh the lamb bone the egg horse radish root and the greens that symbolize spring matzoh reminds us of our ancestors exodus from egypt at the table another view of the ceremonial items as well as the gefilte fish that we like to have as part of the meal our main course was chicken marbella a 1980s favorite that i had never cooked before gefilte fish photo by alice what it all means from 2007 in 2007 i wrote a child friendly explanation of the symbols on the passover plate here it is again in case you would like to see it we celebrate the same way each year you might notice that it s even the same tablecloth back then i was writing for miriam and alice who were small children happily alice was with us in person this year in the spring we celebrate the jewish holiday called passover we have a special ceremony called a seder and we tell a story about jewish history a long long time ago to tell this story we have special food on the table the picture shows the table from last year at the seder we tell the story of how the jews were slaves in the land of egypt in this long ago time and how moses their leader helped them to escape we celebrate freedom and the coming of spring moses and all the people ran away from egypt so fast that they didn t have time to bake bread but ate a flat bread called matzoh for the holiday of passover many jewish people do not eat any other type of bread or crackers for 8 days because they want to remember the story when the jewish people were slaves they had to work very hard making big buildings for the egyptians on the seder plate is a special fruit jam called charoses that tastes very good charoses looks like the mortar that holds a brick or stone building together and we eat it to remind us of the lives of the jewish slaves who worked on the buildings in egypt the next special food is called bitter herbs or horseradish this is a very bitter sharp tasting root this taste makes all the people at the seder remember the hard and bitter lives that the jewish people had when they were slaves around 3000 years ago they make us remember that freedom is a good thing one part of the seder is to eat matzoh with some charoses and ground up horseradish on it and remember the bitter and the sweet parts of the story salt water on the passover plate makes us remember the tears that people wept when they were not free men and women the egg on the passover plate reminds us that spring is here parsley or other mild tasting green herbs is also on the seder table to remind us of spring another part of the passover celebration is to eat egg with salt water and matzoh and to dip the parsley in salt water also on the passover plate is a bone from a lamb we also drink wine as we tell the story when moses helped the jews to escape the first thing they did was to cross a big sea named the red sea here is the magical part of the story the water of the sea opened up and everyone could walk between the walls of water while they walked moses s sister sang and danced to help them on their way her name was miriam and she has an important part in the story after all the jews crossed the red sea and escaped from slavery they lived in the desert for a long time miriam had a magic well so that wherever they went they found water to drink even though the desert is a very dry place miriam s magic well was always with them photos 2007 2026 mae sander posted by mae travels at 7 58 am 12 comments labels chicken passover older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me mae travels my name is mae e sander i live in ann arbor michigan i began blogging in 2006 and kept both a food and a travel blog through 2015 i m now posting both food and travel at maefood blogspot com including various posts about mona lisa parodies detective fiction world literature and many other interests this blog contains no advertising and no product endorsements if i mention a product it s because i like it i do not accept products for supposedly objective reviews view my complete profile blog archive 2026 62 april 12 night and day women in the kitchen after the storm a monster worse than hitler reading this week blossom time early edition watching tv and reading our world an old favorite nobody quiet sunday happy passover march 17 february 17 january 16 2025 195 december 22 november 22 october 11 september 6 august 4 july 29 june 16 may 18 april 21 march 12 february 16 january 18 2024 244 december 24 november 21 october 15 september 19 august 21 july 22 june 19 may 19 april 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