Tuesday, 30 March 2021

How to do the Easter feast from the easy chair

More news from Houston, where a hundred bucks or so will get you a turkey feast with all the trimmings. Frozen air freight at cost.

PS: I might mention that I have been reading at reference 2 about a special kind of easy chair, once popular in this country, called a smoking chair, fitted with a drawer under the seat into which one could discretely spit, rather than using the floor. This at around the time that spitting in company, or worse still in a public space, was coming to be considered bad manners.

Reference 1: https://texasmesquitegrill.com/.

Reference 2: The Rituals of Dinner – Margaret Visser – 1991. Turned out to turn up what she has to say about disgust, on which there will be more in due course. Half a dozen or more references in the index, which is more than can be said for the Lévi-Strauss on the same shelf, which is odd given the shared interest in table manners. I'll get to the bottom of it.

Reference 3: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2012/01/modern-marvels.html. The book noticed here lives next to that at reference 2. Reading this post, I am tempted to read it again - only put off by the pile of started & part-read books getting a bit tall just presently, this despite all the extra reading time resulting from constraint in other areas.

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