Want to curl up with a good book? Take your pick: from Perez the Mouse to the Paston letters, from cheesy 19th-century novels to sober anthropological studies.
The Cult of the Chafing Dish: a cookbook for the rest of us, by Frank Schloesser.
Dust in the Balance, the first short-story collection from the author of The Winds of March.
Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook’s Oracle by William Kitchiner. One of the earliest recognizably English cookbooks: melted butter, here we come.
Here’s where it gets meta. Run a website long enough, and you start learning things—including plenty of things you would have been perfectly happy not knowing.
All the stuff that wouldn’t fit anywhere else. Along with the do-it-yourself MiSTings, this is where you’ll meet Judge Judy, the heraldic lion rat, reviews of long-forgotten movies, my obligatory venture into fan fiction, and more.
Idle thoughts from an idle webmaster, or, things that will never grow up to be pages of their own. Probably.
For all admirers of Two Set Violin.
If you know the difference between what is real and what is not real, you may like this.
Or, then again, you may not.
Things get interesting when you venture beyond the familiar ABC.
Everything you need to know about Prosyl, Nunacom and the rest of the family.
The Inuktitut language as seen from the outside—with some unavoidable digressions into the politics of the far north.
Reports from our favorite legislative body, the Nunavut Assembly.
Over here: reality. Over there, drifting away on an ice floe: our hopes.
If a picture says more than a thousand words, then a picture with caption has got to be worth . . . well, at least 1001 words.