Ancient Grains Archive
Link Roundup AND Toronto Meet-Up!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Jan 10, 2014
As I return to the land of my birth for a three-week sojourn, it occurs to me that I should have a delightful Toronto Toast meet-up for my cold, deceptively-placid country(wo)men. Who would attend such a thing, and where should we have it? I will be in Southern Ontario from the 18th
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The Lost Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ancient Grains, History
Jan 09, 2014
Thanks to "pure serendipity", Crook had chanced upon the largest collection of unpublished letters by the author of Frankenstein to be discovered in decades.
The letters date between 1831, nine years after the death of her poet husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and 1849, when ...Read More
Eat Me: Can S/he Make a Cherry Pie?
Ancient Grains, Food
Jan 09, 2014
Previous installments of Jessica Valenti’s “Eat Me” column can be found here. Most recently: Sunday Sauce.
I grew up in a house in Long Island City, Queens that my great-grandparents bought almost 100 years ago. There was an apartment upstairs and over the years the downstairs was a paint store, ...Read More
Food Sins: A Primer for the Confused
Ancient Grains, Food
Jan 09, 2014
Actual Food Sins
- Coveting thy neighbor’s kohlrabi
- Refusing to honor thy mother and father’s quiche
- Bearing false witness regarding who ate the last mallomar
- Worshipping cheese
- Worshipping graven images and sculptures of cheese
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A True Gentleman
Ancient Grains, Folklore
Jan 09, 2014
A true gentleman sets himself on fire immediately upon a lady entering the room.
A true gentleman never impregnates a kitchenmaid while there are fertile chambermaids in the house.
A true gentleman never speaks to wolves, only foxes and bears.
A real gentleman will always allow himself to be immured in his mother's tomb as soon
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Misandrist Obituaries
Ancient Grains, Feminism
Jan 09, 2014
The author was inspired by #NYTwomensobits.
Clementine Churchill’s husband, Winston, son of the famous American socialite Jennie Jerome, has died at 91. Sir Winston was an accomplished amateur painter and famous for his tea-cakes.
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Rosalind Franklin’s lab partner, James ...Read More
If You Knew Anne of Avonlea IRL
Ancient Grains, Books
Jan 09, 2014
Previously: Anne of Green Gables. She's a little older now, and responsible for teaching a classroom of small children, but it hasn't helped much.
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"It was full of little children and laughter and songs; and now it is empty, and nothing ever wanders through it but the wind. ...Read More
Design Flaws: The Horrible Human Neck
Ancient Grains, Health
Jan 09, 2014
The Creation of the Human Neck
"...And to finish, let's just put this hollow, damp, easily-infected tube right there, in the middle of the neck. That should do it."
"Just one?"
"Just the one."
"For breathing and for eating, both?"
"Yep. Two functions for the price of one."
"Isn't that dangerous?"
"Oh, almost certainly."
"What if you accidentally used it
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