Join me and travel to Evett's Ham-Shop, Red Lion Passage, London, in 1815.

You can buy slices of ham between two crusts of bread & I may 'carry them away cool in a couple of cabbage leaves'.

Your ticket awaits: bit.ly/EatingOutRegen…

The Old English word for 'not' was 'ne'. This went directly before the verb and it was sometimes even glued to the front of the verb stem - 'ellided' in linguistic. terms. This created an unusual class of negative verbs in the language - for example /1

Two walnuts, 1702. By Adriaen Coorte, who paints the stillest still lifes. It's been his day today.

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'the night cellars of a 100 years ago! What dens, what sinks, what roaring saturnalia of scoundrelism they must have been!'
Augustus Sala in 1852.

And you can visit them yourselves (and the wonderful places too) during my online class. Details here:
bit.ly/EatingOutRegen…

I’m learning Chinese on Duolingo! It’s free, fun, and effective.

In my newsletter this week I ponder upon a wooden goose and a grill.

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I did go wild with my tulip planting this year but I don’t regret it. :) There are homegrown tulips everywhere in the house.

Are you partial to a tulip?

I adore #lovage and the fact it returns every spring to be the flavour booster I'm after in various recipes. It is a particularly delicious addition to beef stew, which lends it a deep umami flavour along with the #mushroomcatsup I use in our recipe. Great. Now I'm hungry.

The beauty of boiled beef stew?

Current view. All (except cactus) homegrown!

I wish to time-travel to Georgian London where 'the hungry passenger of moderate fortune may live with convenience & elegance...not only eat & drink, but sleep, upon the most reasonable terms'.

Will you join me?

These are what were known as 'florist's flowers' - competitive flower growing in the East End

Another bright morning in Brighton & a glorious romp around the allotment.

Life affirming I feel with added tulips.

You may have a passion for historic cookery books AND money to spare. If so I can implore you to make your way to the Gavroche auction.

Also good to look at for those of us who are church mice poor :)
onlineonly.christies.com/s/le-gavroche-…

Everyone, Beyond the Streets is doing their Beyond Jack the Ripper tour again, which focuses on the victims' lives (not their deaths) and raises money for women in need.👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/whitechapel-…

Highly recommended. My writing classes with the Gentle Author were amazing so I can only imagine how good the tour will be.

The widow Jervis contemplates her possessions on the chimneypiece and writes in her commonplace book: Paraphernalia came to English via Medieval Latin, from Greek “parapherna,” meaning 'bride's property beyond her dowry' (from para-, meaning 'beyond,' and phernē, meaning 'dowry')

'the night cellars of a 100 years ago! What dens, what sinks, what roaring saturnalia of scoundrelism they must have been!'
Augustus Sala in 1852.

And you can visit them yourselves (and the wonderful places too) during my online class. Details here:
bit.ly/EatingOutRegen…

Find yourself on the streets of London in the eighteenth century? Hungry with little money?

Eating-cellars will serve you cheaply a shin of beef, tripe, cow-heel or sausages in the company of hackney coachmen, draymen & out of place footmen.

Will you be joining me?