every food and cocktail in: The Great Gatsby (part 1)
Doing things a little different this time - research on which cocktails were popular in the 1920s and what the Buchanans might have served before dinner.
every food in: Nancy Drew #19 & #4
Listing the food in Nancy Drew 4 and 19- a two-fer this time.
every food in: Nancy Drew #40, The Moonstone Castle Mystery
Quick overview of the food in Nancy Drew #40 and review of the book.
every food in: Nancy Drew #9, The Sign of the Twisted Candles
Reviewing and cataloguing my favorite entry in the Nancy Drew series, quickly discussing prohibition era drinks.
every food in: Nancy Drew #23, Mystery of the Tolling Bell
Embarking on the Nancy Drew series, trying to find the origin of “fish pie with salmon meringue,” and being vividly relieved I am allergic to salmon and cannot recipe test that.
what I made this week: 4/26-5/1
Sketching some produce, and trying out a recipe for spicy salad dressing from 1914.
every food in: Pippi Longstocking (book 1)
Swedish food, discussing becoming aware of my own cultural biases around food, and 3 hours of research into finding out what a “pineapple pudding” is.
every food in: The Railway Children
Reading a book that was labeled anti-Czarist propaganda in 1905. (Yes, seriously.)