Curations from the Human Jungle
[This is one of those Facebook things, but since it was posted by a friend who is also a doctor, I thought it was worth checking out. And ... it's a real study. So, I will continue in my quest to become a rock star, because I've always wanted to turn my back on fame... Continue Reading →
Joy Rides is how we sightsee during a pandemic. We pack a picture and head off to explore our beautiful region in a day trip.
[Silverbacks have a rutting season, too, but it lasts for 365 days and extends equally for both the male and female of the species. SB SM] The Outside Story By Susan Shea On an October day years ago, my husband and I were canoeing on a pond in the Green Mountain National Forest. We heard... Continue Reading →
Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia A self-proclaimed pickle enthusiast explores India’s familial pickle-making traditions, which stretch back generations. published in Aljazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/ By Ruth Dsouza Prabhu Published On 29 Sep 2023 “My 30-year-old lemon pickle is salty. How can I fix it?” Renu Jain asked on a Facebook food group, bringing my scrolling to a grinding halt.... Continue Reading →
[A tip of the hat to Silverback Jerry (Quaker Silverbacks) for suggesting this. SB SM] October 5, 2022 11:46 AM ET THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo provided by The Great Pumpkin Farm, Emmett Andrusz, from left, Steve Andrusz and Scott Andrusz, pose with the record-setting 2,554-pound pumpkin in Clarence, N.Y., on Saturday.The Great Pumpkin... Continue Reading →
[Gin-ecdote: The Gin Shop is back, but with some significant new twists. Our local is the Barr Hill Distillery in the state capitol, Montpelier. SB Sandy and I visited recently and she had her once-a-decade martini. Far from the dens of debauchery that characterized London's gin mills of Dickensian times, Barr Hill is the personification... Continue Reading →
Gin-ecdotes Liquid Bewitchment Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 By James Brown Part 4 At the same time as gin was regaining momentum within these deluxe new venues, an organised temperance movement was starting to take shape. Spearheaded by coffee retailers, doctors, evangelicals, and industrialists, and animated by a fervent belief in the deleterious economic, medical, moral,... Continue Reading →
[Is there a bottle of gin in our liquor closet? Yes. How long has it been there? Since early summer. SB Sandy and I are gin lovers, but not gin drinkers. Sandy is good for one martini per decade, but we both enjoy a crackling gin & tonic on a warm summer evening. Liquid Bewitchment... Continue Reading →
Gin-ecdotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7U9uHl0Zc Liquid Bewitchment Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 By James Brown Part 2 Seminaries of Mischief: Gin Shops Like other novel intoxicants, gin created an entirely new species of urban space organised around its sale and consumption . As cocoa spawned the chocolate house, coffee the coffeehouse, opium the opium den, and tea the tearoom and tea... Continue Reading →
[Gin-ecdote: The article following is from the Public Domain Review. It's a really engaging piece of scholarship that is, alas, a bit too long for the attention span of your average simian. Therefore I am publishing in five more digestible chunks. Each will be preceded by a brief gin-ecdote, an hors d'oeuvre to your daily... Continue Reading →