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...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2017
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
Dec 29, 2016
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
Nov 2, 2016
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
Aug 7, 2016
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
Jun 8, 2016
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
Feb 25, 2016
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
Nov 26, 2015
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 27, 2014
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
May 25, 2014
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
Nov 25, 2013
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
May 19, 2013
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...
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