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Author Archives: Lizzie Ross
Soup and salad, March
As I continue with Brother Victor-Antoine’s soup and salad cookbooks, I’m beginning to suspect that the various recipes aren’t necessarily organized by seasonality of ingredients. This month’s recipes feature ingredients normally at their best in the fall (squash, potatoes, apples). … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, NOT a food blog, Reading the Year, Soup and salad
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This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors*
Occasionally a book cover grabs me, and it turns out the book is #5 in a 12-book series, or something like that. This has happened three times with one particular author, Alexander McCall Smith, who wrote the No. 1 Ladies’ … Continue reading
March brings breezes
March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil. If you look closely at the image above, another from the Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (Limbourg brothers, early 1400s), you’ll notice not just the plowman with his team … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Reading the Year
Tagged Dorothy Hartley, Gladys Taber, Miss Read, Peter Mayle
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Potage and salad, February
I recently saw fresh cherries in a local store, marked “product of Chile”. It had to cross the equator to get to northern Manhattan. Oh the carbon footprint! SOUPS For this month’s choices from my soup-and-salad-for-the-monastery books*, Brother Victor-Antoine (hereinafter … Continue reading
Orwell in view
Remind me never to buy roses from any vendor other than the farmer who grew them. In Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit’s 2021 biography and appreciation of George Orwell, she devotes a chapter of the book to her visit to a … Continue reading
Posted in Am reading, Essays, Nonfiction
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A quick recommendation
Perhaps you already know about XKCD, Randall Munroe’s wonderful “webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language”. If not, check it out here. If you visit the site, try the random button a few times. It’ll give you a good sense of … Continue reading
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February brings the rain
February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. Sara Coleridge’s couplet for this month describes what’s happening outside my window as I write. Yet this rain, which has washed away all traces of Winter Storm Kenan, could turn to ice … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Reading the Year
Tagged Dorothy Hartley, Gladys Taber, Peter Mayle
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Mary Stewart’s Heroines
January’s author-in-focus is Mary Stewart (1916-2014), who wrote romantic suspense novels, as well as a romantic fantasy series based on the King Arthur tales, and several children’s books. A year ago, a dozen of her romance novels found their way … Continue reading
January brings the snow
“January brings the snow, / Makes our feet and fingers glow.” Sara Coleridge Perhaps I’m pushing the theme a bit, placing a gorgeous illumination from Les Trés Riches Heures de Duc de Berry next to a couplet from the daughter … Continue reading
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