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I look at my crammed shelves and feast with artful reflection, for no meal is good that cannot be reflected upon with pleasure. Incident of the Christmas pudding. I look at my crammed shelves and feast with artful reflection, for no meal is good that cannot be reflected upon with pleasure. 2009: RIP Gourmet Magazine. Postal Service Employees I Have Known. Morality, Vegetarianism, etc. 1967 Joy in 2009. Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food. Food Mags and Fantasy. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. A Bit of Butter.
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zwieback/zweiback « One Peppercorn
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Earlier this year, I annotated a series of historical recipes for. The newsletter of the British Society for the History of Science. Someone wrote in to observe I had misspelled “zweiback” in the recipe copied verbatim from a 1960s US Little League cookbook. Here was my reply:. I understand well the frustration of seeing a familiar word mis-adapted into other languages; I have still not wholly reconciled myself to biscotti being a singular noun in English. September 14th, 2011. Permalink. A Bit of Butter.
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I look at my crammed shelves and feast with artful reflection, for no meal is good that cannot be reflected upon with pleasure. November 5, 2008 1 Comment. While watching coverage, I couldn’t help but laugh at the constant commentary about the “historic” election. Of course I understand the monumental implication, but the nagging voice in my head wants to shout “Hey guys! Every election becomes historic! September 10, 2008 1 Comment. Perhaps not as awe inspiring in it’s precision in composition, te...
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bread « One Peppercorn
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Earlier this year, I annotated a series of historical recipes for. The newsletter of the British Society for the History of Science. Someone wrote in to observe I had misspelled “zweiback” in the recipe copied verbatim from a 1960s US Little League cookbook. Here was my reply:. I understand well the frustration of seeing a familiar word mis-adapted into other languages; I have still not wholly reconciled myself to biscotti being a singular noun in English. September 14th, 2011. Permalink. Despite my year...
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rubaboo stew « One Peppercorn
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Zynga is a powerhouse among gaming companies. As of last year, their Farmville was one of the world’s most played games. Their newest, CityVille, garnered a hundred million users within six weeks. That’s approximately the entirely population of Mexico, or a third of the population of the U.S. Until two weeks ago, I’d wager that rubaboo was a fairly obscure word, most likely to be encountered by those immersed in Canadiana. There was a Canadian journal for kids by that name in the 1960s. A 1...Agrees....
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laksa (Lyons Seafoods) « One Peppercorn
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A combination of a thoughtful friend and corporate marketing generosity led me to eat dinner last week in a lovely space more usually used for photography shoots. A dozen of us arrived for an event which far surpassed its somewhat unpromising invitation. (A “new range of meal solutions” are not words which should be allowed out into the wild, for starters.). We were greeted with cocktails made by a flair-wielding bartender, and by representatives of the marketing agency and the brand, Lyons Seafoods.
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2010 « One Peppercorn
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Like a great many people who are interested in word histories, I’ve been playing with Google Lab’s new toy, Ngram Viewer. This week. It generates comparative graphs for words and phrases from across the corpus of books which Google has scanned in a given language, weighted for number of books in each historical period. It still has some problems from Google’s careless OCR’ing, but is, nevertheless, useful for general trends. The same is true of “caramel”, whose towering heights of frequency. December 22n...
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January « 2011 « One Peppercorn
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Zynga is a powerhouse among gaming companies. As of last year, their Farmville was one of the world’s most played games. Their newest, CityVille, garnered a hundred million users within six weeks. That’s approximately the entirely population of Mexico, or a third of the population of the U.S. Until two weeks ago, I’d wager that rubaboo was a fairly obscure word, most likely to be encountered by those immersed in Canadiana. There was a Canadian journal for kids by that name in the 1960s. A 1...Agrees....
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I said, “I come from hog country”, and she was jealous, wishing she could say she was from somewhere like that. I asked her where she was from, and she hesitated scarcely a second before replying, “Butter pie country”. I’d never heard of butter pies, so I asked her where they were from. The Preston-Blackpool-Wigan area, she said (I simplify). I’ve spent a lot of time around there, but never run across them. Why? They used to be a staple of Preston North End football games. I don’t know. The pie’s f...
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