I'm reading the most extraordinary botany book that I've read in
years, incredibly well researched and very readable, almost feels
like reading a detective story. In particular the author references
18th century cookbooks to make her conclusions. My favorite tidbit is
how William Henry Harrison condemned his presidential opponent
because he favored strawberries, which was considered very french (&
unAmerican in the 1840s). Harrison claimed that a good president
should be eating raw beef.
American Household Botany : A History of Useful Plants, 1620-1900 by
Judith Sumner
mIEKAL
On Dec 5, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
I remember staying in Newcastle-u-T a few times in heatless houses
(Stuart
Marshall I think) w/ only a red rubber bed-warmer which didn't that
or any
other trick.
What are warming literatures, kind and comforting discourses? You
remind
me of Atwood's Surfacing, even Joan Didion, all I can bring is Lingis'
Excesses to the table vis=a-vis immersion, but it's a very
different sort.
Seriously, what discourses, books, warm you, in this bleak season? I
wouldn't know where to begin, although oddly, Harry Potter seems to
do it
for a number of peple.
And has anyone here read Arno Schmidt?
- Alan
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they
will never sit
—Greek proverb
