The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #105
A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue, New York Times, Elisabeth Egan and Erica Ackerberg, February 14, 2023 I love this:
I remember, years ago, my childhood church had the coldest, cleanest, most refreshing water fountain I’ve ever seen. At least, that’s my memory. This is a delightful, heavily illustrated piece featuring libraries all over the country. Read the whole thing.
Now that I have a (gas) grill, I might be able to make something like this credibly. Serious Eats does the whole “long story/background + recipe at the end” format really well, and I enjoy reading these thorough cooking articles/narrative recipes. I also like Indian food, and now, with a source of very high heat, tandoori chicken seems like a relatively easy recipe to make at home. The PDF from the Wayback Machine version of this page (the real webpage gives an error) has copying disabled, so I can’t quote a piece of it. It’s a very interesting article from a traditionalist Catholic organization arguing, with some evidence, that the Japanese tea ceremony was to some degree influenced by the Tridentine Mass. This claims pops up from time to time, and I can’t tell you if it is true. But I could believe it. In fact, the first time I traveled to China with my wife, one of her family friends invited us over for tea, and did something like the Japanese tea ceremony. I remember thinking, long before I’d ever heard this claim, that it resembled the Catholic Mass. Perhaps all rituals sort of resemble each other; and after all, the core of the Mass is a meal, something human and universal. Bone Sour Shame, Hodgeman’s Thoughts on The Great Outdoors, September 26, 2012
I sometimes discover and scroll through random old-school blogs, and this is a good example. It’s from a hunter in Alaska, on the proper field care of successfully hunted animals to avoid spoilage. I’m probably never going to hunt or live in Alaska, which, I guess, is part of the appeal of reading these little slices of life. Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 600 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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