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authors whose works i had only vaguely heard about sarah rutledge born 1782 for example was the author of the carolina housewife by 1847 when sarah rutledge published the carolina housewife her only book she could look back on a lifetime as doyenne of southern society featuring rounds of spring presentation parties and languid summer suppers giving way to the festivities of thanksgiving and the winter holiday season when she set up house independently in charleston she would have been served by slaves so her advice on how to run a household is very different from later authors who address women who had few or no servants predictably there s a chapter on irma rombauer and her original and insanely successful way of writing a cookbook the joy of cooking who doesn t know this cookbook by 1974 no cookbook in american history had achieved such fame two decades later joy of cooking was chosen by the new york public library during their centennial celebration in 1995 as the only cookbook among its 150 most influential books of the century more than a million copies had been sold by the time the seventh edition was published in 1997 after a series of revisions a 75th anniversary edition was published in 2006 it contained 1 152 pages and more nearly echoed earlier editions the urge to modernize was curbed and the teaching text was restored and expanded as julia child put it when she heard about the upcoming anniversary edition thanks for putting the joy back in joy women in the kitchen is a quick and entertaining book to read i found some of the material new to me and some very familiar which is a nice combination i think the author keeps her focus on food cooking at our house cooking sunday evening dinner alice made salmon with cherry tomatoes i made au gratin potatoes posted by mae travels at 8 59 pm 9 comments labels cookbooks food history joy of cooking rombauer salmon friday april 17 2026 after the storm earlier this week a violent storm tore through town our immediate area was very lucky but there was quite a bit of damage in a few other areas the front wall of a skating rink a few miles from here was ripped off by the strong winds and quite a few cars were crushed by falling trees rain has continued on and off the weather hasn t stopped the flowers and flowering trees from continuing their spring blossoming an azalea blossom covered with raindrops a fallen tree around a quarter mile from our house woman walking dog for eileen s critters cyclists pass by a fallen branch photos in the paper show vehicles crushed by much bigger tree limbs ephemeral blossoms on a weeping cherry tree a day ago by now most petals have fallen 2026 mae sander shared with sunday salon at readerbuzz during the storm posted by mae travels at 3 19 pm 16 comments labels politics spring thursday april 16 2026 a monster worse than hitler a monster stalks london it s 1939 and the blitz is raining bombs and terror down on central london but the monster is worse more dangerous and less comprehensible the characters in francis spufford s novel nonesuch have to deal with this combination of horrors there s a very good monster and believable innocents caught up in a world they don t really understand the main character a woman who was working in a broker s office takes charge of the struggle and a dramatic struggle it is the book is pretty good with a combined war story and horror theme but somewhere in the last 100 pages it takes a long winded turn with tons and tons of detail about bombs in london at this point i had to force myself to keep reading and when i finished i felt a bit cheated because the ending well it s not exactly an ending it leaves the reader unsure i think maybe i just don t get it posted by mae travels at 4 01 pm 4 comments labels francis spufford london wednesday april 15 2026 reading this week an old book by ursula le guin as i read ursula le guin s space travel book the dispossessed my mind was filled with the images from the real trip around the moon that took place last month i picture the story by imagining the view of the earth from near the moon in this live photo transmitted by the astronauts however i didn t really enjoy le guin s carefully composed details of 1974 era space fiction and didn t finish reading it a new book by francis spufford nonesuch a novel by francis spufford interests me because i enjoyed one of this author s earlier books cahokia jazz which is an alternate history detective novel at the 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...