“Too many whores! Too much boating! Too much exercise! Yes, that’s right: a civilized man does not require as much locomotion as doctors would have us believe.”
1878, translator and source unknown. Found in the essay “Cruising with Genius” by Graham Robb, NYRB Volume LVI, Number 3 (February 26, 2009).
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- latest great leap forward in home oven coffee roasting technology
- Natural Wine, sort of like Organic used to be.
- beautiful solutions to an almost obsolete orchard problem
- yogurt is warm milk held overnight
- things I haven’t posted about this spring
- dandelion wine
- Johnson’s Winter (York) apple
- many homely barometrical signs
- peppercress, again
- appalachian wood-fired coffee-roasting accounts
- orange peels in the soup
- at least a couple of things are coming up roses
- we’re getting creative over here
- green soup
- uses of stovetops
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