RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[falkner]

What are you reading? Are you reading?

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[valoise]

Busy week that was also filled with getting ready to go to Worldcon, so instead of committing to something longer, I caught up on short fiction from Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Uncanny

Looking for something to read on the plane I dipped into a set of pdfs of 16th & 17th century cookbooks that I'd downloaded a long time ago and picked the 1664 book: The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper. Lambasting Mrs. Cromwell with comments like she “was an hundred times fitter for a Barn than a Palace” that her style of managing the estate should be described as “pious negligence and ill management of the Domestique Affairs”. So imagine my surprise when I finally get to the cookbook part and it consists of very typical recipes of the era, richly flavored with the herbs and spices that you'd expect from a noble household of the time. I think the book only exists for the unnamed author to vent their individual frustrations with the times that had just passed.