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- What’s New for the 22nd of June: books about baseball, air travel most unusual, some music about baseball (and some not)
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Handfasting (A Letter to Katrina)
- What’s New for the 8th of June: kibbles and bits — lots of fairy tales, steamy anime, a Cairo comic, new jazz, an archival grab bag, and a Kitchen tale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Cats
- What’s New for the 25th of May: new and notable SFF books; Murderbot on TV, and some Star Wars prequel movies; new jazz music and some tasty archival selections; food & steelworker strikes; and a novel Tarot deck
- What’s New for the 11th of May: Special Jack Zipes edition on fairy tales; an obsure Tam Lin film treatment; songs that tell stories; new jazz, Danish fiddle tunes, Norwegian women’s vocal music; Russian and Eastern European food and cooking, and more
- What’s New for the 27th of April: Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw’s fiction and Flytrap zine; Tea with Jane Austen; a fine French fairy tale film; some new jazz and archival francophone music reviews; and the Stones!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Most Beguiling Cookbook
- What’s New for the 13th of April: Anthony Bourdain in print and video; Calexico, Giant Sand and related music; new recordings of ragas, Nordic songs, and vocal jazz, ‘The Night They Drive Old Dixie Down’ performed by The Band
- A Kinrowan Story: We Lost The Cheshire Cat
- What’s New for the 30th of March: Space Opera by Niven & Pournell, Arkady Martine, C. J. Cherryh, Elizabeth Bear, Simon Jimenez and more; Kage reads for us ‘The Empress of Mars’, a novella she wrote; a grab bag of music including new Buryat folk music; The Ukrainians; live music from the Scottish band Iron Horse; Gail Simone graphic novels; Farscape; and of course chocolate
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Rooms
- What’s New of 16th of March: A variety of mysteries; some new Scottish music by an old band, new jazz, and splendid archival reviews; ballads in graphic novel form; and chocolate in Paris
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New of 2nd of March: Kibbles and Bits including ghostly stories, the Hotel California, music picked by Gary of course
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Quotes that aren’t
- What’s New for the 16th of February: Books by and about Bob Dylan, and music by Dylan and others; plus some new world music and jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Unreliable Narrators
- What’s New for the 2nd of February: All about the Oz books, green man lore, and gargoyles; Baltic polyphony, East-West ambient psychedelia, and a grab bag of other music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Knit One, Purl Two
- What’s New for the 19th of January: Go Ahead, Be Pleasantly Surprised At What’s Here
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Ancients and Venerables of Guild of St. Nicholas
- What’s New for the 5th of January: A look back at books Gary reviewed in 2024; some seasonally appropriate Nordic music and a little new jazz
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Biscuits
- What’s New for the 22nd of December: A Solstice Story, Crow Girls, Scrooge, Marley, Elizabeth I, Revels and more festive holiday reading; The Lion in Winter on stage and screen; Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span, Christine Lavin, swinging jazz and more holiday sounds
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces
- What’s New for the 8th of December: Elizabeth Bear fiction; some holiday related offerings including new music from The Unthanks, Americana tinged jazz, Polar Express, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Eggnog
- What’s New for the 24th of November: Norwegian winter holiday music, archival jazz, new roots music from around Europe, and more; books and what not about things fictional & medæival
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pudding
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Category Archives: Food and Drink
Ivan Day’s Ice Cream: A History
Ask anyone waving around a Drumstick cone or Klondike Bar where ice cream comes from, and you’re lucky if you get a smart-aleck response like “the freezer.” Ice cream may be near universally loved (there’s an ice cream truck going … Continue reading
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Daniel Karaczun’s Out of This Kitchen: A History of the Ethnic Groups and Their Foods in Steel Valley
Food is part of the daily life of everyone, but the labouring class that worked in particularly dangerous occupations such as mining and steel making came to consider food more than something that you ate to keep going: food was … Continue reading
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Tagged American sports history, food and drink, history
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Lesley Chamberlain’s The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe
I have previously reviewed The Food and Cooking of Russia, and I am finally ready to tell you about Chamberlain’s companion volume, The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe. Both are reissues of books initially released in the 1980s. This … Continue reading
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Lesley Chamberlain’s The Food and Cooking of Russia
I decided to stretch my reviewing muscles and try something a little different this time around, by accepting two regional cookbooks. The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe is now out as well, but today, from the same author, we … Continue reading
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Dark Horse’s action figures: Roald Dahl’s The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, recently released Roald Dahl’s The Gremlins in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the United States Air Force. In a slightly melodramatic and over-sentimentalized introduction, Leonard Maltin gives a nevertheless fascinating … Continue reading
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Tagged Action figures, comics
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Kim Wilson’s Tea with Jane Austen
Books are a lot like meals: sometimes you want something long, drawn-out and filling, other times you want something light and easy, but with enough substance to make it worthwhile. I have to admit that my current diet of epic-length … Continue reading
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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition
Joseph Thompson wrote this review. In January 2010 Anthony Bourdain may possibly have visited my favorite bar. I say “possibly” because his trip to Portland, Maine, won’t air on the Travel Channel until 12 April 2010, a few months after … Continue reading
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Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Few things in this world highlight humanity’s truculence like the feast of Ortolan. This small bunting, force fed through manipulations of its diurnal cycle and then drowned in Armagnac, is eaten whole. With a cloth … Continue reading
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Chapon Chocolatier’s 100% Venezuelan Chocolate Mousse
Kelley wrote this for Sleeping Hedgehog. On entering the store at 69 Rue de Bac, the back wall covered in metal chocolate molds drew me in. The next thing I noticed was the gracious smile of the handsome young man … Continue reading
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Hammond’s Candies Double Chocolate Hot Cocoa
Hammond’s Cocoa was established in Denver in 1920 by Carl T. Hammond Sr. Hammond’s Candies has been in continuous operation ever since, priding itself on producing quality candies using ingredients and methods that harken back to the days of its … Continue reading
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