I thought about putting hookworm in the title and decided that was a bad idea. I’ve been wandering through Project Gutenberg and found a story that I’m reading very slowly. It’s about a public health campaign I never heard of before, carried out with Rockefeller foundation money, in the tropics in the 1920’s. A Yankee [...]
Still life with apples
While looking up apples on the Internet earlier this week I came across a discussion of mealy apples, and why it’s worth cooking with them. I was fascinated and let the information percolate for a bit, but here is the deal. Being living matter, apples are made up of cells. And being plants they have [...]
Apples, apples, apples
When I was little my mom made applesauce out of Granny Smith apples. She occasionally made pie, probably also Granny Smith, but I was ignorant and didn’t like apple pie so I didn’t pay attention. Cherry pie was a different story and I lobbied hard for it. I also suspect that no-one was too worried [...]
The Feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls
... A nice distinction found in the Father Lasance missal I inherited from my mother. Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints and I hope everyone has something festive. One of the priests around here always says, be sure to have some ice cream on a feast day. And tomorrow is the Commemoration [...]
The baked beans were great!
I mentioned a three bean/baked bean recipe last Friday**, and can now report that I tried a version of it, using canned butter beans and navy beans as the second and third beans. I like the spices that I actually used, to wit, bacon, dry mustard, BBQ sauce (the recipe uses ketchup), brown sugar, cider [...]
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