In March 2020, and nasty virus gave a stop paragraph to our planet. For two solid months we were locked down,, restricted to our humble abode. I kept a diary as I knew I would forget and indeed I already do two weeks and a half after our release.
This page will simply give you a list of my various posts so that is easier for you to track them back and it will include the funny pictures still coming out after the end of the lockdown
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- The mystery of Day ( Anita’s Birthday): this wonderful event was another Chronicles on May 3d which I’m not going to forget… yet maybe because we drank a lot or something strange happened when I was sorting another bug but this Chronicle which was one finally marking the way towards the end of our lockdown vanished. Below are some photos and all I can say is that I spent 6 wonderful hours out in an impressionist garden with my lovely friends. I also wrote a small card that reads:
“I don’t have a history, only a past. “ (p 102)
Because I finally managed on 23d May MMXX to achieve my dream of a Saturday afternoon reading in bed (honestly my ultimate treat!) and was looking up some Medieval English expressions (spit boy and Dottypoll), I found this excellent English Renaissance Food literature which I warmly recommend and where I found a fabulous bibliography I intend to add to my own for further pandemic activities:
A Book of Fruits & Flowers. Shewing the Nature and Use of Them Either for Meat or Medicine. London, 1656. 1-26. Digital.
A.M., Mrs. Cookery Refin’D or The Lady, Gentlewoman, and Servant-Maids Useful Companion. London. 1-95. Digital.
Brears, Peter C. D. All the King’s Cooks the Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace. 1st ed. London: Souvenir, 2009. Print.
Brears, Peter C. D., and Peter C. D. Brears. Tudor Cookery: Recipes & History. Rev. ed. Swindon, England: English Heritage, 2003. Print.
Dalby, Andrew, and Maureen Dalby. The Shakespeare Cookbook. London: British Museum, 2012. Print.
Fitzpatrick, Joan. Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Print.
http://dictionary.medievalcookery.com/dict_a.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/elizabeth_I/
http://www.elizabethi.org/contents/court/
http://www.historicroyalpalaces.com/tudor-court-tea-towel.html#.VICfwslrbco
http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/our-landmarks/properties/fish-court-2999/#tabs=1
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-above-the-salt-mean.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-above-the-salt-mean.htm#didyouknowout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAYlHWqEjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUd-cTNT8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jxWL5jT68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqn9r6cmz9w
Hull, Liz. “Porpoise Porridge, Sire? World’s Oldest Recipe Book Reveals Dishes English Kings Enjoyed 600 Years Ago.” Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232527/Unveiled-Worlds-recipe-book-shows-masterchefs-creating-600-YEARS-ago.html>.
Matterer, James L. “Gentyll Manly Cokere. Culinary Recipes from MS Pepys 1047.” Gentyll Manly Cokere. Culinary Recipes from MS Pepys 1047. 1 Jan. 2005. Web.
Segan, Francine. Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook. New York: Random House, 2003. Print.
The Good Huswives Handmaid, for Cookerie in Her Kitchin in Dressing All Manner of Meat, with Other Wholsom Diet, for Her & Her Honshold & C.London, 1595. 1-58. Print.
Wright, Kristen. “Grene Boke:The Commonplace Book of Lady Avelyn Grene – Index.” Grene Boke:The Commonplace Book of Lady Avelyn Grene – Index. 1 Jan. 2014. Web
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