Mind the Pedestrian, Richard

Lost Kitchen Scrolls

It has a huge variety of historical recipes from different regions, taken from manuscripts, transcribed and translated, and a whole section of notes about the context for the recipe. It's really fun and I AM going to try a couple of these recipes.

Look at how this lamb recipe is presented:

This is just such a fun way to learn more about historical foodways and discover traditional cuisine.

Look at all the filters you can use:

Maybe if I can forage some good blackberries this year, I can make a 300 year old recipe for blackberry wine!

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wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting

wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.

wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.

wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.

wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.

Simple Heraldry by Iain Moncreiffe and Don Pottinger

Look at my jellyfish sprites boy

Sundogs

Asperitas clouds

Russian Light Pillars

Nacreous Clouds

Morning glory clouds

St. Elmo's Fire

Peterson’s version [of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism] sounds rigorous. It sounds demanding. It uses the vocabulary of sacrifice, of suffering, of bearing your cross. But the sacrifice Peterson demands is Jungian self-mastery, not Paschal dying-and-rising with Christ. The suffering is the weight of becoming your best self, not participation in the suffering of Christ present in the poor. The cross is the burden of responsibility, not the instrument of salvation. The hero’s journey ends in self-actualization, not in the tomb and what comes after it. Peterson has taken MTD’s theological emptiness -- no incarnation, no resurrection, no living God who acts in history, no specific historical claims about a specific person who rose from the dead -- and dressed it in the aesthetic of seriousness, combat, and masculine demand. The theological content is identical to the therapeutic version. The emotional register is its precise inversion. MTD for angry young men.