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BÉESO DAH YINÍLJAA

 

Because I live in New Mexico and sometimes write about it, an article in the Albuquerque Journal in mid-August caught my eye.

BÉESO DAH YINÍLJAA

My accent marks are not quite right because I don’t have a Navajo keyboard and they’re not standard on the Alt code charts.

Here’s the translation: “A Fistful of Dollars”, which has been dubbed in Navajo through the efforts of the director of the Navajo Nation Museum, Manny Wheeler. This is one of the steps he’s taken to keep the language alive (there...

Get free books for your autumn reading and maybe win nifty stuff

When was the last time you heard someone use "nifty" in a sentence (or anywhere else)? See  the Third Annual Fall into a Book giveaway event, below, for how you can enter

First, the free books: 

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I meant to write a longer post about this but I've spent the weekend checking galleys for A Peculiar Enchantment and I now need a nap.  

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L𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦𝗔, 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮, 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗞 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆.

Tagline: A new life...for a few more lies.

 

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Where are the foods of yesteryear?

"Hard Times and Hardtack" was going to be the title of my article on Civil War food for Historical Times Magazine. The title apparently failed to please but the magazine and the article will be out on August 1, 2022.  https://online.1stflip.com/dssx/3jfn/   
I learned fascinating things while writing it. The following tidbits are among the 3,000 words I cut: 
 American cuisine did not spring into existence with the first colonists. They brought their cookbooks and their ideas of what food should be w...

I finally have a newsletter! Plus you get...

 I'm a techno-dinosaur, perhaps because my mind is so often in the 1740s. For several years I've known I needed a newsletter because every writer does. And every time I thought of it, I went and did something productive: wrote a novel, or ate dulce de leche ice cream, or cleaned the toilet. The thought of figuring out how to set up a newsletter gave me a megrim. 

Illustration for Pamela by Samuel RichardsonI tried twice, unsuccessfully. The house was getting really clean. But after working on it ...

Hard Times and Hardtack

 As some of you may have noticed, I occasionally write about Georgian era food. This is not solely because I write novels set in the mid-eighteenth century. My fascination with the history of food began when I was nine or ten.  

My father was an excellent and imaginative cook, and should probably have been a chef instead of a rate and tariff analyst. Even so, I might not have caught the culinary research bug but for two things. The first was that he began bringing home Gourmet Magazine. The other...

Fodder & Drincan: Anglo-Saxon Culinary History

 Because the history of food fascinates me, I'm looking forward to the publication in October of this year to a book about Anglo-Saxon food and drink. 

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Roman army medics and pecan pie

 

Recently I learned a new word: capsarius. All right, it’s not one likely to come up in casual conversation…unless one is talking about the Roman army. Maybe not then.

The legions had medical units (and wouldn’t that make an interesting TV series? Sort of a cross between M.A.S.H. and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) which set up about a quarter mile back from the front lines. But the capsarius, about one per eighty-eight legionaries, was in the thick of it, like a modern army medi...

Memorial Day

 Many of us mostly think of Memorial Day as the unofficial beginning of summer. Sometimes it's good to be reminded of what it's really about, so this post is dedicated to Captain Benjamin L. Salomon, Surgeon, serving in the Marianas in the Second World War. The following is the citation from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Captain Ben L. Salomon was serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Isl...