Early summer thoughts
We’re having a bit of weather here. Nothing serious, and certainly nothing to be concerned about. It just means that my computer time is a little unreliable … and so am I. Early summer, after all brings thunderstorms. Cherries are followed by thunderstorms and spiders: I need to remember this.
I have no food history on my mind at all. This is really unusual for me and is related to me being at the tail end of the teaching year. Three more weeks and then I have writing time and some space to find a bit more energy. Just three more weeks. Until then, food history in my life is a bit sporadic.
The main food history element in this teaching week wile b in my one-off workshop on Saturday afternoon. I need to put together a teaching kit that includes Medieval aphrodisiacs, contraceptives and abortifacients. As I keep telling everyone, there is no practical element to this course, so we don’t get to test the effectiveness of each herb or spice. We’ll talk about them, though, and how they fitted into social views of sex.
The other bit of food oddness in my week is a catalogue. I have one for the first person who emails me an address. It’s from Kinokuniya, a Sydney bookshop. In October they had a cookbook promotion and put out a catalogue of their most discounted cookbooks and obtained permission for recipes from each book to put in the catalogue. They include a chocolate scratch and sniff panel on the front. So, if you’ve always wanted a cookbook with a scratch and sniff panel, this is you big opportunity. The first person to email me with a request for it (use the contact button on this page – to the right somewhere) will fid it winging its way in the post, soon. I might even include one of my new latke recipe postcards in the package.
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