The book was a book of the month book. Has some pretty good essays in it. Posts on American Voices here: https://www.bigfoodetc.com/?s=american+voices My favorite. Really. If you can spare a few minutes, read my summary of the essay. The premise is “Olson’s essay is nothing more than an exchange of six letters between the fictional
Crappy old books On the Bank Published on August 18, 2018 by Marica Civilization is a stream with banks, … . The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even
I cannot remember when we began this little project, but in 2020 we worked our way through some choice quotes from C.S. Lewis. This is an especially good one. Here is a link to all Screwtape posts (only 11?): https://www.bigfoodetc.com/?s=screwtape Crappy Old Quote of the Day | Disgusting little human vermin Published on August 18, 2020 by Marica Disappointment
This is an interesting one. And you know this is not a political blog. But we do like history and we think there’s value in the observations of those who lived in the past. Interesting also because this was another instance of Big Dogs Jawin’–the early years of developing Missy and Rocky’s characters. This one
Have You Heard of This Woman? Published on August 11, 2013 by Marica I came across this while skimming through one of my newest– and newer (1978)– crappy old books, Webster’s Encyclopedia of Dictionaries: 12 Complete Dictionaries in One. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man– the struggle between a proud mind and an empty
Apparently I searched for a followup to the post of 8/6/15. Ike Walton’s Prayer Published on August 6, 2015 by Marica | Edit As a follow up to a post from yesterday, I give you Ike Walton’s Prayerby James Whitcomb Riley I crave, dear Lord,No boundless hoardOf gold and gear,Nor jewels fine,Nor lands, nor kine,Nor treasure-heaps of anything.-Let but a little hut
Also, this was the day I had my 2-week follow-up after having surgery on my shattered wrist. My cast was orange! I like Lewis’s thought, by the way. Crappy Old Quote of the Day | The bard does not exist Published on August 4, 2020 by Marica Art, Function of In the highest aesthetic circles one now hears nothing
No comment. That’s One to Remember Published on August 2, 2013 by Marica | Edit Wouldn’t you know the Palmer Home Thrift Store (my personal crappy old book store) was having a 1/2 price sale on books on the day that I was in a hurry to get back to the Farm! Only $4.50’s worth of crappy old books today. Nothing too remarkable in
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
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
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
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)
Because I always do exactly as I am instructed to do, I am sharing this (cough) crappy old book with you today, Mass Formation Psychosis Day. Mass Formation Psychosis is nothing new. (How arrogant we are, thinking that after all these many years we in the 21st century have come up with a new behavior?)
It’s the occasional Drudge Work Monday here at Bigfood so I thought we’d take a quick look at Heloise and as you can see, she did not disappoint. If you are clueless, Heloise is Heloise Bowles Cruse. She had a newspaper column in which she gave all sorts of hints and tips for the homemaker,
In the ten (?) years of Bigfoodetc’s existance, I have mentioned this crappy old book in 43 posts. Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them (Mary Emogene Hazeltine, American Library Association, Chicago, 1928) “Extracts from his speeches can be part of a program in Burke’s honor.” Right.
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