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Monthly Archives: March 2014
1.351 Billion Can’t Be Wrong – The Diversity of Chinese Cuisine
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “The Ideal Chinese Dinner Party 9” from Chinese – Dinner Party Series by Global Journey. Released: 2006 In 1988, when I was in China, the population at that time was roughly 1.102 billion … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Cooking Technology, Eating, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged Beijing, Chengdu, Chinese Cooking, Chinese Cuisine, Cookbook, cookbooks, Cooking, Dongguan, food history, Peking, Pu Yi, Sichuan, social history, Sue Jimenez, The Great Wall of China, Tianjin, time capsules
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What’s In a Cookbook? (other than the obvious)
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Old Note Found in a Book” from The Old Photo Box by Lior Navok. Released: 2008 In my years of cookbook collecting, I have purchased probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of 80% of … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Recipes, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Cookbook, cookbooks, Recipe Clippings, Sue Jimenez, time capsules
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Solar Cooking Bonanza: Albuquerque has 300 “Sundays”
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Here Comes The Sun (Live) (2004 Digital Remaster)” from Live In Japan by George Harrison. Released: 2007 (note: previously published as “Strange but True: Albuquerque Calendar has 300 Sundays! – perhaps the title … Continue reading
Strange but True: Albuquerque Calendar has 300 Sundays !
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Here Comes The Sun (Live) (2004 Digital Remaster)” from Live In Japan by George Harrison. Released: 2007 How can that be? The Gregorian calendar we use in the Western World today typically has … Continue reading
What’s in a Name? Dah diníilghaazh (Navajo Fry Bread)
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Moon Rituals” from Navajo Moon by The Flute Clan. Released: 2006 The Navajo Nation occupies northeast Arizona, northwest New Mexico, and a small portion of Utah. In 2011, approximately 109,000 Navajo inhabited the … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Eating, Native American Cuisine, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged Bisti Badlands, cookbooks, De Na Zin Wilderness, Navajo Fry Bread, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Shiprock, social history, Southwest, Sue Jimenez, The Long Walk, time capsules
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“Micro-Rise” Bread in 60 minutes. Really?
I admit I was skeptical. I don’t bake very often, and baking bread, even less so. I’m not particularly fond of my bread baking machine and have never achieved the results I wanted, even just using it for the dough … Continue reading
Stargazey Pies and Stinking Bishops– Oh, Those Wonderful Brits!
CLICK ABOVE TO PLAY MUSIC Music – “Rule Britannia” from Elgar Variations by Brass Band Willebroek & Raf Van Looveren. Released: 2007 For many years, while I was growing up in Toronto, my sister and I had a regular babysitter, … Continue reading
Posted in Cookbooks, Cooking, Cooking and Social History, Food Trends, Uncategorized, Vintage Cookbooks
Tagged Bangers and Mash, Bubble and Squeak, Canterbury Cathedral, cookbooks, English Cookery, English Cooking, English Recipes, English Regional Cooking, Glastonbury, London, Oxford, social history, Somerset, Sue Jimenez, Sussex, time capsules
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The Vintage Cookbookery 
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