Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 14
June 28, 2023
A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?
June 21, 2023
Ice creamy: more no-churn ice cream recipes
If eight ice cream recipes isn’t enough, how about six more? Try ice cream with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and with nothing but cream.
June 14, 2023
Creating searchable PDFs in Ventura
My searchablePDF script’s behavior changed strangely after upgrading to Ventura. All of the pages are generated at extremely low quality. This can be fixed by generating a JPEG representation before generating the PDF pages.
June 7, 2023
A golden harvest of sunflower seeds
Golden Harvest Sunflower Seed Recipes is a fascinating bit of ephemera from the seventies and the tail end of the era of regional whole grain mills.
May 31, 2023
Kolchak: The Big Creep (a Daredevils adventure)
Inspired by The Powers of Dr. Remoux, The Big Creep is a Daredevils adventure for The Night Stalker set in the autumn of 1976.
May 24, 2023
El Molino Best: Whole grains in 1953
El Molino Mills of Alhambra, California, published a fascinating whole grain cookbook in 1953.
May 17, 2023
Something fishy in the state of Wisconsin
Fish soup, fish salad, and fish gelatin. These are very fifties recipes—for better and for worse. Very worse.
May 10, 2023
The Bedrock Belief of DEI
What does it mean to say that only whites can reason, only whites can act individually, and only whites are suited to literacy? These are not new arguments and their meaning has not changed.
May 3, 2023
Our parental unit, who art, somewhere, maybe
God’s Blessing Sends Us Forth; We Are the Light of the World; With a Shepherd’s Care. Is there room for God the Father in the modern church? Are the bowdlerizers creating a first-contact crisis?
April 26, 2023
Island Book 1 and old-school tables
Judges Guild Island Book 1 is a fascinating playground on which to place a sea-going adventure or campaign. It’s also a great example of the usefulness and wildness of old-school encounter tables.
