Enough vacuuming! We need to relax it‘s #caturday night ! Dusty is just gonna sit on the cord!
#CatsOfLitsy
pickThis was a fun book. It‘s written like The Core of an Onion, in that it‘s half history, half recipes. I love butter and love to try all kinds. This book tells you how butter has been made through the centuries, its values, and significance in religion. It‘ll have you thinking about just how special it is every time you grab a spoon of it!
The Great Butter Rebellion, which took place at Harvard University in 1766, was the first recorded student protest in the United States. Since the opening of Harvard‘s gates in 1636, food service had been an issue and the quality of the butter was exceptionally poor. Apparently one meal with particularly rancid butter led Asa Dunbar (the grandfather of Henry David Thoreau) to jump upon his chair and proclaim: “Behold, our butter stinketh!—⬇️
Friends, I think our furry family members have been holding out on us🤣I need my husky and two Bostons to start making some butter for me!
pickInteresting and entertaining, this book focuses on cultural attitudes about menstruation, particularly during the 19th-20th centuries in the United States, with a heavy emphasis on advertising and marketing of “feminine products.” This is not a heavy scientific book, more a book that shows how advertising/culture has reinforced the idea of periods as negative, sometimes weirdly. Illustrated with vintage ads for feminine products!
pickThis was really interesting and I learned a lot. I maybe didn't like it quite as much as Salt, which I read years ago, but it's whetted my appetite for similar books. I think I'll get Cod next.
pickLast read of the year because I only have two more hours and the library history is way longer than that. I REALLY liked it, possibly most in Pastoureau's entire series on the colors. Due to black's on-and-off history as counting as a color, this goes a little bit more in depth in historical color ideas. Also some truly bonkers looks into medieval worldviews. Love it.
Pastoureau agrees with me! Two people in the "the 17th century was the WORST century" club!
"I confess that I have never believed in a universal system of colors independent of time and place and shared by all civilizations. On the contrary, I have always stressed that the problems and stakes related to color are cultural, strictly cultural, and prohibited the historian from disregarding eras and geographical areas."
Good to know that I'm agreeing with an expert.
