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BSHS Travel Guide: McMillan Sand Filtration Site
New post up over at the BSHS Travel Guide about the McMillan Sand Filtration Site in DC.
Jefferson’s Garden
Jefferson’s Garden Over at Garden Rant they just posted about Jefferson’s Kitchen Garden and last night, I finished reading Peter Loewer’s Jefferson’s Garden which, after some introductory material about gardening during the period, the seed trade, and a profile of Jefferson as a farmer and gardener, profiles many of the plants that Jefferson grew and … Continue reading
Fannie’s Last Supper: Recreating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook
Part history, part memoir, and part cookbook, Fannie’s Last Supper is a wonderfully written story of the book and one man’s quest to create a twelve-course dinner representative of those created by the original readers of Farmer’s 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Leaving no stone unturned, Chris Kimball gives us a real feeling for the life, times, … Continue reading
Recent Read: Wicked Plants
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart is entertaining but slightly disappointing! Interesting little book that provides some of the basic details about many poisonous plants, but don’t think that you will learn anything more than the basics from it. The illustrations are useful for identification and while scientific names are given, the descriptions are too vague to … Continue reading
Been busy …
Okay, I have not been very good at keeping my blog updated recently. Well, I do have an excuse the last two weeks … I got a job! I am now working at the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum here in Alexandria, Va. I am enjoying the new job and I got really … Continue reading
More recent reads … fiction, fish, food, & foreign
Okay, it has been awhile since I have updated on what books I have recently been reading … The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – Yes, for the first time in a really long time, I read a work of fiction that was written less than five decades ago! I read this book because we … Continue reading
New BSHS Post
Since I got back from the AHA in Boston, I did a quick little post on the Harvard Collection of Scientific Instruments for the BSHS Travel Guide. More to come soon …
Recent Reads … dogs, history, politics, food, and more
Amazon.com Widgets Whether it is a book about understanding dogs, the food system, the history of the AK, or something else, I enjoy reading a vast array of nonfiction. Here are my recently completed volumes, in no particular order: (Beware, it is not a short list.)
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Sure, modern celebrity has a different character than traditional heros and modern events are regularly planned, but is this really that different than the past when leaders were made into celebrities and every town had its best known members or the planning of major events on auspicious dates? For me, not really. While this book … Continue reading
Recent Reading … a slight backlog
Okay, I have been busy recently and have not had time to post some of the books that I have been reading. So, before I take this load back to the library, here they are: Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson – While Jackie Robinson broke the … Continue reading
