history
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When planning a dinner party, it is wise to consider the dietary needs of the guests, as well as the inclinations of the host. Which brings me to K.K. Cathers’ A Writer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Murder by Arsenic.
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I’m endlessly fascinated by what people cooked, baked and ate in the 18th and 19th centuries. Must be a combination of my deep-seated history nerdiness and great love of baking, but the moment I started seeing references to Queen Cakes, I went down that rabbit hole. Preheat the oven, my pretties. We’re going in!
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I love history humor, and my algorithm knows it. Instagram keeps offering up a Pompeii Fun Run T-shirt, complete with mosaic depiction of panicky people fleeing the erupting volcano. So dark! It might be an effective history teaching tool, though. You’ll never forget the year Vesuvius erupted after seeing 79 A.D. spelled out in mosaic…
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Here on the West Coast, the word “shipwreck” conjures visions of the square-riggers, schooners and clippers that foundered on the Pacific coast in the pre-lighthouse days. And the Titanic, of course. Can’t forget that one. But back in 1856, the Missouri River was a treacherous place for steamboats. Snags — downed trees and tangled branches…
