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Dorette’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Bread of Dreams: Recipes and Portraits of the Mistresses of Psomi
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The Secret Starter Society + a Library Dream (with lemon curd)
Dear Readers of Taste, Chers Lecteurs du Goût,
This week I wandered a real-life maze for a library card (doors! elevators! desks! arrows with plot twists)… and then my mind gave me a dream-château that was also my childhood school—ending at a dish sink full of laughter.
I wrote it up on Substack—and tucked a *Carte de Recette* at the end: **Curd au Citron (lemon curd)**, a little jar of sunshine you
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“The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres.
*** The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women. And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.” ...more Dorette E Snover |
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“The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres.
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
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“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”
― The Baron in the Trees
― The Baron in the Trees
“The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres.
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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