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Thought all you literary types might find the attached link of interest. Perhaps we should have a Foodsville event...an absinthe tasting combined with a showing of Van Gogh pictures and a Hemingway reading:Â Â
http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/72547_20071120.aspÂ
The Blue Grass Cook Book, published originally in 1904, is a loving testament to the power of food-inspired memory, while being evocative of the sights, smells, and tastes of Kentucky in the 1900s. This book should be remembered, not just because the recipes were compiled by Minnie Fox, the mother of John Fox, Jr., American journalist, novelist, and short story writer, but also on its own merits. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanis...
The nineteenth-century was a time of enormous social upheaval in America. Having passed through the political tumult of the Revolutionary War era and established the political frameworks that would govern this country, it seemed as if America’s educated elite could finally begin to concentrate their energies on the social structures and precepts that would dominate this land. Nowhere was this more evident than in the realm of education and, specifically, women’s education.
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