tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97141452009-10-17T15:10:10.133-04:00Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125Syllabubhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-33292022770134444832009-05-18T05:58:00.036-04:002009-05-30T10:39:36.956-04:00Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own begins with lunch. Novelists, she observes, might write about meals, but “seldom spare a word for what was eaten.” So she furnishes her meditation on education...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/HD88KQf68ag" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-18756780909771908172009-01-04T19:52:00.029-05:002009-01-11T07:25:23.629-05:00A is for Apple. B is for Burgle. C is for Chomp. And D – consequently – is for Do a Runner. I recently visited an English Stately Home and I acquired a small souvenir. Englishness and stateliness...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/ckFZILiXI1U" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-14958980202623873392008-08-02T18:02:00.066-04:002008-12-14T07:00:48.653-05:00I've decided to apprentice myself to the arts of pliancy. Quiet habits of severity have edged into my life. Which is not to say that all severe habits are bad. I expressly cultivate some, like...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/gRxlAPVufN0" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-61081294525817129432008-03-11T23:16:00.015-04:002008-12-14T07:00:49.771-05:00Humpty Dumpty is not an egg. At least, he is not necessarily an egg. The rhyming riddle documenting his accident never specifies his species. An early illustrator decided the matter, and since then...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/sTNVW1DghhI" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-35220916937995254852008-01-15T01:41:00.000-05:002008-12-14T07:00:50.697-05:00Port Meadow is a large and ancient grazing ground in Oxfordshire. It is a floodmeadow, flanked by a thin, brambled-over stretch of the Thames, and no matter the season it is hung with a sense of the...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/wFzYCwcRnCk" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-69420549111144001322007-11-07T00:49:00.000-05:002008-12-14T07:00:51.573-05:00Weddings – pallid, repetitious – happen beneath the orange blossom, but bitter births, the ballads tell us, happen beneath the thorn. Bitter births, no two the same, stubborn shovings into the...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/FGsjYvydW-Q" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-35822294517613622732007-07-10T01:28:00.000-04:002008-12-14T07:00:52.578-05:00I sleep in a bedroom painted “Pea Green.” It is a colour that follows you into slumber, pulling the gate of the day to. I got the idea from a friend, who years ago painted every room (in a house I...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/vIMY3-FDYzU" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-51210623836448727392007-04-11T13:55:00.001-04:002008-12-14T07:00:53.777-05:00The world is made, it sometimes seems, to pucker around us. It has a drawstring of rules and regulations, substitutions and evaluations, examinations, meter readings, caliper-pinchings and drive-by...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/RkAJ99QkqW8" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-37682198245302693222007-01-01T21:00:00.000-05:002008-12-14T07:00:54.763-05:00A pumpkin is a pod of plenty and paucity. Its taut hide restrains both a density of flesh, and a mass of debris – damp clinging fibres and flat, blanched seeds – that scramble the fruit’s dark...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/N3yTSwn4UYQ" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-18584005573835835072006-12-01T22:06:00.001-05:002008-12-14T07:00:55.569-05:00The other day, upon returning from a trip to the Pacific Northwest, we celebrated the thrill of things chilly. We had left town with one red, paunchy suitcase and we flew home with one red suitcase...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/9Nu_GGlcqO0" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1159757614705386942006-10-01T22:52:00.000-04:002006-10-02T23:26:56.623-04:00Last week I lost an Apple Pie competition. My pie was many days in the making, but still it failed me. I was roundly beaten by Bryn, our department secretary and expert baker, whose beautiful...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/wGW05WFr9-s" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1158374086181990162006-09-15T22:30:00.000-04:002006-09-16T08:47:01.563-04:00A few days ago the snub-nosed white FedEx truck squealed to a halt outside our house and delivered a dented and sagging brown cardboard box. It was from Florida. Cross-legged on the floor beside...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/0dMkMc0P0Fc" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1156910019686671862006-08-29T23:42:00.000-04:002006-08-30T09:37:46.463-04:00This past weekend we stocked our small city garden with friends and an old enamel washbasin filled with ice and good Philadelphia beers – Dogfish and Yards – and then we grilled a pile of burgers. ...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/sOPqG2CPR6U" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1155857000962327692006-08-17T19:22:00.000-04:002007-01-20T17:44:21.484-05:00The first thing I ever remember cooking was a bucket of mud soup that I fed to my younger brother. Despite being an instrument of torture, this dish was a model of eating locally, with the...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/Jp9MWAnfZic" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1154902051406222492006-08-06T17:48:00.000-04:002006-08-23T15:46:20.020-04:00One of the only sadnesses I have about living in Philadelphia, in my elderly brick row house with its pocket handkerchief garden, is my lack of chickens. I would love to have a couple of chickens...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/sXRSRVA1cGk" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1154658022771931032006-08-03T22:11:00.000-04:002006-08-05T13:58:38.296-04:00Today I did not make a cake. This is unusual anyway, but particularly strange because it is B's birthday. My pans are still in their cupboard, my icing nozzles stashed in the basement. Why this...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/olAWbBFW7QA" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1154060575837297992006-07-28T00:13:00.000-04:002006-08-30T01:00:47.676-04:00When someone gives you a big bag of basil, you are honour bound to make pesto. And even if honour has no sway over you (I confess that I am, more often than not, cloth-eared to its calls), the...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/kTPbWtXmuO0" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1153521419335552402006-07-21T18:34:00.000-04:002006-07-23T15:09:57.896-04:00Sometimes you do things in the kitchen that make you wonder at yourself. In my college days I remember being very taken by a Francis Bacon painting of meat and his remarks in the gallery catalogue...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/-oBdUUm4FrY" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1153272257953630592006-07-18T21:21:00.000-04:002006-08-03T12:18:30.540-04:00Today is the morning after. Last night the temperature here in Philadelphia stopped just shy of 100 degrees. It was the hottest evening this summer has seen, and what did I do? I spent it hovering...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/FtxYyW1Q_kE" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1152672363773811502006-07-11T22:18:00.000-04:002006-07-12T00:38:08.446-04:00I love the sniff of a new season around the corner, the stretch of the one you’re in, the memory of the one gone before. Those changes cheer and comfort me, and I love being bustled along by them. ...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/MPkxW2Y7rhY" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1152404894256040682006-07-08T20:11:00.000-04:002006-07-13T13:55:36.163-04:00Today, we celebrated Amelie Mauresmo’s winning of the Wimbledon 2006 Ladies’ Championship title . . . with a most excellent sandwich. I suppose I should admit that we would have used the same...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/44o5XMLg9bY" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1151979996364707562006-07-03T22:24:00.000-04:002006-07-18T21:53:47.840-04:00Tonight, a holidayish night - one before July 4th – I made digestive biscuits. Another attempt to cull the culinary delights of the nation of my birth, and replicate them here in the nation of my...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/wwwJzZ-fHEI" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9714145.post-1151766742853464292006-07-01T11:07:00.000-04:002006-08-20T18:49:48.903-04:00This past weekend, it turns out, was the perfect trifle weekend. All the necessary fruits came ripe together. It was, in fact, a bit goblin markety. When I teach that poem I always point out that...<br/> <br/> This is just a taste of the latest entry. For the full posting, visit syllabub.blogspot.com.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Syllabub/~4/IJdvwEJZT2Y" height="1" width="1"/>Syllabubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588844623929969188noreply@blogger.com9