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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Pie and prejudice
Thanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and once again it’s time to search the works of Jane Austen – who, as an Englishwoman who never...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2017
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Austen laurels
D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2017
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The Austen Catch-Up Project: The Jane Austen Cookbook
England is a wonderful country. Its history is rich, its democracy is a model for the world, its literature is second to none. Its food...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 29, 2016
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Cooking with Jane
Here’s another item to add to the list of contemporary cultural phenomena that have now been given a Jane Austen twist: TV reality...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 3, 2016
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Austen sleuthing
Although “Jane Austen Detectives” sounds like the title of a beach book I’d want to read, it’s actually the name of a sixteen-month-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2016
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My old Kentucky scone
It is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9, 2016
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Supper time
Toronto, it seems, is a really great place to be a Janeite. Last year, the local Jane Austen re-enactment community -- as best I can...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 25, 2016
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Pass the potatoes
For last year’s Thanksgiving Day blog, I amused myself by searching out Austen references to turkey. (As it happens, there are two – one...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2015
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Gobble, gobble
As I contemplated my holiday cooking earlier this week, I found myself wondering whether Jane Austen ever mentions The Bird – our...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 27, 2014
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I'll have what she's having
Perhaps I’d eaten a small lunch on the day I ran across Dining with Jane Austen, Julienne Gehrer’s online account of her research into...
Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2014
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The dishes on Austen's table
I ate so much terrible British food during the two years I studied in England – I can’t think of my Oxford college’s rendition of...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 25, 2013
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Scones redux
Two weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite the Emporia Gazette's claims to the contrary, none of Jane Austen’s characters ever eats a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2013
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