Stark Summer: A Novel of Correlated Incidents (James Robert Peery, 1938) Over the next couple of days I’m going to post enough content to make up for lack of same so far this summer. Hope you enjoy and I’d appreciate feedback. Also, I need $200 to buy Peery’s second book, God Rides a Gale, so
The Heart of a Father. Mary W. Lightfoot (compiled by). The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland. 1970 These sorts of findings are unsettling. Earlier in 1972, Bill and Mary had given their mother Far Above Rubies: My Mother. The maturity of the handwriting suggests that Mary, at least, was probably in her teens
Baldwin’s Book Barn Check it out. Five stories, 300,000 books. If you’re in the neighborhood 865 Lenape Road, West Chester, Pennsylvania Brought to you by the Sunday Morning Book Thread at AoSHQ
Dash was the name of Charles Lamb’s dog. I am deadly serious about this. One of the books I picked up in Vancouver was Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Centenary Edition (1977, 1st 1870). There are four pages devoted to “dog,” organized thusly: Dogs in Phrases of Colloquialisms of note in Classics and Legend
The “As Someone Once Said” callouts of Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School were a lot of fun to write. Challenging! But a lot of fun. The work begins, of course, with finding just the right quote for the ol’ hippy dog, Gilbert to share with Missy and
If you’re wondering what to do with that antelope you’ve got sitting in your freezer! How to make real corned venison, antelope, moose, bear, and beef Published on March 10, 2019 This won’t be ready for St. Patrick’s Day but might be a fun Spring project for the ambitious! Found in Mr. Big Food’s Big Food Manual
Linked to this old post earlier today. Thought it was worth updating. Stretching the Food Dollar Published on December 8, 2011 From The Modern Family Cookbook (1958, 1st 1942) I think The Shopper’s Creed speaks for itself. Give it another read. The Creed begins a four page chapter devoted to helping “you become a better manager,” because when the
Vintage Cookbooks Published on March 20, 2021 This site is bookmarkable in the extreme. Well organized. Easy to navigate. Click on over and look around. Great fun! UPDATE: Here’s the link. Sorry!
Sue Jimenez, a retired forensic anthropologist, reportedly has the largest collection of cookbooks in the world, as certified by Guiness World Records. She has at least 6,000 cookbooks in her library. Sadly, I did not find any evidence that she has The Deplorable Gourmet in her collection. You can find an online version of her collection here. She also
A very important question is asked and answered at the end of Chapter XI: Questions, Questions, Questions in Miss Missy’s School. But I can’t tell you what it is! (Though you maybe able to guess.) This is the chapter where the Big Dogs– including Tiger the Cat– tell their stories about Tommy’s insatiable curiosity. Aubrey
In my quest to find quick stuff to post on account of the fact because I have lots to do, I discovered this. (Keep scrolling down.) A surprise to no one Originally published on March 5, 2020 This was fun. I took an online English Grammar Test yesterday. I couldn’t resist. I believe the site in its entirety
This quote comes from “Chapter X: Zero-One-Two” in Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School. This is a funny chapter! I don’t want to give it away, but the premise is that Bebe thinks she knows how to do something, and Jordan tells her she’s doing it wrong. But
Mr. Big Food’s compilation of recipes is titled The Big Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide. It has tens of thousands of recipes he’s culled from his collection of old cookbooks. But in addition to the recipes, he’s also preserved a lot of information and history on food that those old cook books contained. Here’s
This weekend’s quotation is from “Chapter IX: Aubrey’s Story, Questions Answered” in Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School. I don’t want to give away too much of the story in setting up this quotation. Suffice it to say that in “Chapter V: Aubrey’s Story,” Aubrey told Missy a
This is from “Chapter VII: Peter Rabbit.” Gilbert stops by Aubrey and Little Tommy’s home in the shed while Aubrey was reading Peter Rabbit aloud. She stumbles and has to sound words out. Gilbert offers to read, and does so beautifully. When he’s finished Aubrey and Tommy clap and thank him, then Aubrey sends Tommy
I’m doing some research and stumbled across this in The Junior Book of Authors Second Edition Revised (Kunitz and Haycraft, eds., 1951, 1st 1934). FYI Kunitz was incredible prolific: https://gab.com/Marica/posts/107673594698487121. For some odd reason, I don’t have the original first edition of this crappy old book (need to fix that order placed but it’s coming from the UK)
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