*From watching a video by Max Miller, YouTube channel "Tasting History", about the book and its recipe for "Galyntine Sauce": youtu.be/2OFUZ_hd8_k?...
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
YIL* about [one of?] the earliest cookbooks in English: "The Forme of Cury", a scroll of recipes compiled about 1390, " by the master-cooks of King Richard II", later published by Samuel Pegge in 1780. One can download a PDF of the Pegge version from the US Library of Congress, at the link.
Dedication signed: S. Pegge. Signatures: a² b-e⁴ f² A-U⁴ Y² Z-2B⁴. The portrait of Samuel Pegge is dated 1785. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 361 ESTC T40042 Also available in digital form on the...
It delights me when I happen across a piece of music totally new to me that catches my ear. Just now it was this sprightly 3rd movement from the e-minor Violin Concerto (2002) of Radu Piladi. The sections with solo violin accompanied by tinkly bells are enchanting. #Music
YouTube video by Nina Karmon - Topic
In this case, in reference to Henry I's claim to the English throne in preference to his older brother Robert Cuthose, upon the death of their brother William Rufus, in 1100. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
TIL new word & idea*: "Porphyrogeniture", the theory that a son first-born *after* his father's accession to a throne has precedence to inherit the throne over brothers born outside the father's reign. * From reading David Mitchell's "Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens"
Tell me about it--particularly around 3 in the morning when I've finally found the comfy spot in bed.
I know this is true, and I still can't wrap my mind around it.
That sounds like good news. I used to tell people who wondered about it that diabetes was probably not their problem unless, every time they left the house they plotted their trajectory depending on where they knew bathrooms were available.
I don't want to be alarmist, but this was the earliest indication I had that my diabetes was manifesting.
It would be most enlightening if they were all showing on the same screen at the same time.