life goal: infamous recluse
This weekend I'm attending Readercon, a genre conference devoted to the written word and permutations thereof, under my normal guise of writer. Most of my panels are the usual sort, but my first panel this morning is "Archeology in Reality and Speculative Fiction"-- which I'm on because of my dive into the historical recipes you have lately seen grace my pages.
Most people, attempting a 17th century recipe for the first time, might wait until they actually had all the ingredients on hand and, also, maybe... daylight.
I *will* fetch that rosewater from the studio today. But as I stare across my kitchen, planning my evening...
I'm largely staying out of the food-making historical game (with the exception of my BELOVED SYLLABUB) because there are quite a few people doing that already...
I have no idea is this is something that will continue, but sometimes I'm in the middle of studying something that isn't quite ready for a full article, or when I'm in my kitchen or workshop in the middle of working on something that I wish to share-- well, why not do so? Behold her: A MINOR THOUGHT.
As I sometimes do, I'm doing another experiment in creating consistent content for patrons -- this time, I'm creating a brief weekly zine through Patreon called The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine, in the style of the strange and random early Regency and Victorian publications previously mentioned on the blog. Mine will be filled... Continue Reading →
Katherine Crighton 