More random recipes being viewed. It’s just amazing. Thanks! Recipe: Virginia Chicken Pudding (known here on the Farm as TJ’s Chicken) Originally published on February 15, 2016, and viewed by someone today, November 30, 2022 Mr. Big Food has no idea where he got this recipe. He thinks it’s one he’s had since the beginning of
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From Here to There Why are there maps in storybooks? From the Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School. You’ll never guess whose maps we talk about! Tolkien drew maps of Middle-Earth, and detailed maps of the numerous locales within Middle-Earth, before he started writing the books. He’s not alone in beginning a story this way.
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The wind wasn’t nearly as bad as was forecast–at least not here. On the Farm it topped out at 18mph sustained, and no gusts over 30. Still. Knock on wood we haven’t had much bad weather lately so it was good practice. For a time the beep beeps warnings were being interrupted by beep beep
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“This book has been twelve years in the making. It was in January 1948 I started criss-crossing the United States as roving Food Editor for This Week Magazine–my assignment, tell “How America Eats.” I have traveled by train, plane, automobile, by mule back, on foot–in all over 800,000 miles.” –Clementine Paddleford, How America Eats
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Clementine Paddleford’s classic cookbook, How America Eats (1960), begins with recipes from New England. Here, she introduces us to Mrs. Mildred M. Rutherford, “mistress” of Hyacinth House in South Woodstock, Vermont (pg. 13): If thou of fortune be bereft And in they store there be but left Two loaves–sell one, and with the dole Buy
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Clementine Paddleford’s classic cookbook, How America Eats (1960), begins with recipes from New England. Here, she introduces us to Mrs. Mildred M. Rutherford, “mistress” of Hyacinth House in South Woodstock, Vermont (pg. 13): If thou of fortune be bereft And in they store there be but left Two loaves–sell one, and with the dole Buy
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to bring you grapple! And tornado warnings.
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Today at the Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School we learn about similes and read some beautiful examples from The Animal Family, by Randall Jarrell (1965 by still in print; illustrated by Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are!). Miss Missy’s School: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School on sale
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This my from my regular Monday posts featuring an old Horizon (A Magazine of the Arts) issue. Each post has the cover art and Table of Contents plus one featured article. For today’s post, I chose “What Good is Television?” by Walter Kerr. He is a critic, renowned for writing perhaps the best book ever
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The Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School is a site just for kids (and their grownups). Each post, which I’ll be reposting here, is intended to teach kids a little something about writing, and to introduce them to some either classic children’s literature, or older stories and poems by lesser known writers. This was the
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Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School ON SALE at Amazon for only $5! Would you like to read a bit of Miss Missy’s School? Click here to read a free sample. The preview includes: For middle-grade and young adult readers and their grownups. Perfect for homeschool families. “Readers become learners!”
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Last leftover turkey recipe of the season. “Turn your leftover turkey into a Hot Brown. Thanksgiving is now over and hopefully you can sit back and relax with a full heart and great memories shared with family and friends. But if you’re left with a little more than you bargained for in terms of turkey
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MarciaWAC. She knew! Sure looks like Mendocino, California to me. Same water tower! As I mentioned at “Whatever Possessed him?” and as you can see at “Weekly Whale” and “The Art on the Dust Cover,” one of the very cool things about a blog with more than one author is the unique perspectives and interests
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As soon as I get it together we’re going to travel with Clementine Paddleford around These United States of America collecting the stories and recipes that she’ll publish in her famous cookbook, How America Eats (1960). For now, as it’s the start of candy-making season, we’ll stop in at Mrs. Baker’s farm in Freeville, New
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that takes nothing away from her later writings. This is the sort of rabbit-hole trivial you’re missing if you’re not keeping up with the Daily Readings at multi-authored The Old Books Blog!
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Jane Herriot is the resident art and book curator at The Old Books Blog. She is always on the lookout for new and interesting things that are becoming available. She recently alerted us to the fact that an unabridged, serialized Moby Dick has begun. Check out the details at her “Weekly Whale” post.
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One of the cool things about the multi-authored blog, The Old Books Blog, is that all of the authors have different areas of interest and expertise in old books. Per Ralamb, for example, is an antiquarian bookseller (his site, Rosenlunbooks) with a deep interest in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Don’t let that scare you!
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MarciaWAC had a nice post at The Old Books Blog sharing a bit of the history of the dust cover. Some fun (and scandalous!) examples! Click on over. Reposts and links to The Old Books Blog are much appreciated. Around the end of the 19th century Book Jackets were being used to protect the book
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The Weekend Open Thread over at The Old Books Blog asks “What are you reading, writing, thinking about?” Click on over and let us know!
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From the Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer, Friday November 28, 1958. If I’m not mistaken, I think I saw one store advertising a 9:30 closing. Gotta out do the competition.
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