Saints, Souls, and Haints: Nuts
Photo credit: Martin LaBar Nuts, being a delicacy associated with autumn, seem to naturally be part of the Halloween pantry of the past. And Robert Chambers elaborated on this in his 1883 The Book of...
View ArticleNot Nuts (The Natural History and Far-Flung Adventures of the Lowly Peanut)
Summer, the season of re-runs. Since I’m basically a Southern girl, packing 26 years of Southern living under my belt, I wrote about peanuts two years ago. Yep, I’m coming up on two whole years of...
View ArticleBegging the Question: Les Quatre Mendiants and Provence’s Thirteen Christmas...
Photo Credit: Tarn Web The truth is, the dishes associated with Provence’s Thirteen Desserts abound with religious symbolism. Take the Four Beggars, or Les Quatre Mendiants, which symbolize something...
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