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Cottagecore
Cottagecore is an aesthetic idealising rural life. Cottagecore fiction tends to be gentle stories in a rural setting, at a slow pace which includes descriptions of nature, and exude feelings of comfort with perhaps some mild adventure and a some fantasy. Whether an explicit part of the book or lurking in the background, there is always a love of nature.
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But despite heavy clouds, a feeling of contentment hangs in the air, coming from the kitchen's ability to be two things at once: to be an enclosed space that effectively opens up the world through taste and flavor and imagination. Nature comes in here. Pomegranate seeds on rice dishes, a strip of orange peel for a negroni, or a ribbon of lemon skin for a martini. A lime wedge for gin. A bowl of ripening pears. A jar of dates. Peaches roasted in rose water and stuffed with marzipan. Blackberries
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― Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
― Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
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the old house,
in the lee of the hills,
surrounded by relics
of the old powder mill.
the ancient stones silent,
the water wheels still,
but yet there is life
in the ruins of the mill.
the birds and the sheep
find shelter to sleep
the fisherman fish
in the river so deep.
the flowers of the forest
carpet the glades.
and the frogs they are leaping
down in the lades.
laughter bygone
forever is still
yet the echoes still linger
here in the mill.
voices come whispering
from the century that was
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― Green Are My Mountains
― Green Are My Mountains
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