How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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FoodI am a food geek.
If you want to know anything about the use of sugar during the Victorian era or the use of food as a way to strive for a homogenous culture during the early 1900s or the rise of cake mixes in the 1950s and 1960s or the social significance of bread during the Medieval period, I am here for you. If you don't want to know these things, I recommend staying far away from me if I'm cooking, in a grocery store or near food of any kind.
Need a recipe for a Civil War-era cake, a Jazz Age salad meant to resemble a candle, a Roman condiment, a Rhodesian chicken dish or a Victorian beverage? I can provide.
Now if you will excuse me, I'm off to reshelve my massive collection of cookbooks (roughly 1,000 of them) and food history books.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:13, 4 replies)
fishy sauce?roman condiment? would that be garum? if so, how do you do it, would you mind telling me?
A friend has a victorian recipe book, that gives details on how to make a pie, heavily featuring bird-stuffed-into-many-other-birds as filling, then goes on to demand you use a bushel of flour, make a pie crust 2" thick, bake in embers, and then - the oddness of it leaves me reeling in admiration - put it in a carriage and send it to london...
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My latinteacher made us garum once. Very few people would try it, but it was in fact yummy.
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Roman foodSnap! Roman food - marvelous, isn't it? Small boys in the forum, tunicae for goalposts?
I've cooked a fair few Roman recipes. I always tend to overdo the garum in the lentil stew however. Love the stuff.
I cooked Roman food for a TV prog in Italy a few years back and the film crew backed down when they asked for the most disgusting recipe I knew: Brain flan. Meedja types, eh? What are they like?
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here is a book you might likeit has a lot of info about how people survived in america during the depression.......and some of it is about the food:
The Invisible Scar by Caroline Bird
It really is one of the best books about the Depression era I have ever read.
I also have a great old recipie from my great-great grandmother for chocolate cake. I've baked it quite a number of times and it is fantastic. Sad part is that I have been unable to find an icing that tastes appropriate on top.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 2:21,
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