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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Food and Drink
Elizabeth Andoh’s Kansha: Celebrating Japan’s Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions
After spending half a year living on the east coast of China, my feelings towards meat have changed. Although I haven’t become a full-fledged vegetarian, I did stop thinking of meat as the centerpiece of a meal, or even a … Continue reading
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Cait Johnson’s Witch in the Kitchen: Magical Cooking for All Seasons
Stephen Hunt wrote this review for us. I’ll come clean right at the beginning and admit that I’m probably not the kind of person that this author is writing for, as I’m not (a) Wiccan, (b) vegetarian, or (c) a … Continue reading
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Tagged herbology, Magical cooking
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Fearless Chocolate
This is my first opportunity to review chocolate for Sleeping Hedgehog. I must remember to ask for these tasty assignments more often! I learned a couple of years ago to carry chocolate with me for those moments of intense hunger … Continue reading
Inga Saffron’s Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy
Caviar is not just about the taste. Those glistening black globules are a culinary Rorschach that unleashes our deeply held notions about wealth, luxury and life. — Inga Saffron Being married to a culinary expert par excellence means that we … Continue reading
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Tagged caviar, Rusdia
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Reece’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups and other ones as well
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got your peanut butter in my chocolate! —Reece’s Peanut Butter commercial Admit it, you’ve got a guilty pleasure or two. We all do. Maybe it’s greasy burgers from the dive joint … Continue reading
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Max McCalman and David Gibbons’s Mastering Cheese
I am a cheese fiend. Along with coffee and chocolate, those make up the 3 C’s of my diet some days; so it’s rather nice to be able to put cheese back onto the “healthy” side of the line after … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese, fromange
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Taza Chocolate: Chocolate Mexicano Discs
I am always skeptical about companies who refer to the ancient traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the health benefits they derived from chocolate. Those people didn’t make their chocolate drink with a sweetener, and invariably the … Continue reading
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Trader Joe’s Chicken Tikka Masala Frozen Entrée
I decided I had to check out Trader Joe’s, not without some misgivings — I had checked out Whole Foods a while back and left reeling at the prices. But an acquaintance works there, and he said I should give … Continue reading
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Tagged food
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Fazer Confectionary: Tyrkisk Peber
Tyrkisk Peber is another one of those Scandinavian treats that may take some getting used to. It was created by Danish confectioner Per Fjelsten, whose company manufactured it until taken over by Fazer, a Finnish company. As for what’s in … Continue reading
A Kinrowan Estate Story: Our Coffeehouse
Now you might ask why a farming Estate has a coffeehouse, but you need to know that we host everything from curling tournaments to weddings here as they bring in more than a little bit of needed revenue for the … Continue reading
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