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‘Til You Make It

We strayed a little from the path in this column and discussed food again on Wednesday, but we are going to get right back to business today. We will waste no more time on tales like that of the French kitchen assistant who invented Danish pastry. Oh, come now: you saw that onContinue reading “‘Til You Make It”

Ethnic Eating?

This is NOT a column about food. I have sworn that off, This is about ethnic identity, a topic I picked up on when I was informed I was eating Swedes. Learning that it is quite common for rutabagas are also known as Swedish turnips of simply Swedes because they were discovered in SwedenContinue reading “Ethnic Eating?”

Time Capsule’s Full?

The metropolis in which I reside officially decreed, on June 11, that it was Over It. That is, it reopened, declared Mission Accomplished on this latest pandemic, and freed its citizens to go back to the life they were living up through March, 2020. (Except you can’t visit the businesses which closed its doorsContinue reading “Time Capsule’s Full?”

Another Assessment

I had no particular intention of revisiting the subject of Monday’s column. It isn’t that I had exhausted the wordplay available with donkeys on postcards: I just felt I had rambled on long enough about the subject and ought to move to a subject where I could offer more substantive commentary. But theContinue reading “Another Assessment”

Grin and Bear

I hope what I wrote in Monday’s column could not be construed as suggesting the donkey (burro, jackass, etc.) served only one purpose in the postcard of midcentury vintage. The donkey appeared regularly on postcards in many roles: at the beginning of the twentieth century he appeared as a sometimes patient, sometimes recalcitrant beast ofContinue reading “Grin and Bear”

The Means, The Ends

There are some jokes which appear over and over in the postcard world, and bits of wordplay that seemed to leap from cartoonist to cartoonist and company to company. There is the amorous golfer (want to play a round?), the tourist in the ice cream parlor observing how broadening travel is, the little brownContinue reading “The Means, The Ends”

Less Filling

I have no desire to be regarded as a crank, which would suggest I should keep my mouth shut about certain topics about which I have opinions which are not in line with those of the majority. Still, this is the Facebook Age, when social manners demand that you shout such things at theContinue reading “Less Filling”

2-D Celebrities

I thought today we might just glance at three celebrities who can be remembered by heir postcards. Each was responsible for a lot more cultural baggage than that: bits of our language, tie-in merchandise, musical history, and all that. But even at that, they are nowhere NEAR as big as once they were. Continue reading “2-D Celebrities”

Sales of Yesteryear

Maybe, Mincemeat Macaroon, I have been going about this the wrong way. Maybe we can gently ease the conversation away from food and back to the world of postcards, taking baby steps. So I thought I would fill a blog with a few things I learned about kitchen and household ways of the pastContinue reading “Sales of Yesteryear”

Vital Vittle Volumes

Since you asked, I will answer, but we MUST get back to postcards one of these days. But being a blogger and thus not shy about sharing my opinion, I will pass along some thoughts on Iconic American Cookbooks. This is not a Top Ten because I haven’t got room for ten and, anyhow,Continue reading “Vital Vittle Volumes”