Laura Jackson

Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for corn bread dressing with crossed-out words, ingredient adjustments, and cooking notes in pen, including instructions to cook onion, broth, and celery together.

Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for hot cakes with handwritten ingredient adjustments in pen.

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.

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#Thanksgiving

"Cut the fat or rind off the chops, and then bash them briefly but brutally with a rolling pin between two pieces of clingfilm to make them thinner."

Now, *that's* writing.

Several, in fact. Though it took a lot of courage and a general disregard for personal safety to put my hand in there.

A small box filled with what looks like wall insulation (asbestos?) with, at center, a red and blue striped, clown-adorned carnival popcorn bag, which was filled with packing peanuts. Not shown: the neatly wrapped book found underneath.

The most unhinged pack-job I’ve ever seen. Thank you. I love it.

What a profound loss.

Another page, reading: Many Jewish "housewives" often run into "difficulty" cooking for discriminating Protestant in-laws. In this day of "intermarriage," I "often" counsel kosher hausfraus on the ins and outs of the sensitive WASP palate. My handy rule of thumb: When you talk goyisch, you're talking mayo. Mayonnaise is the magic key to so many of those tantalizing front-porch "dishes." Properly prepared with all the fixin's, a mayonnaise dinner can hit with all the impact of the financial pages of the Christian Science Monitor. I like to surprise my Kansas clan with a Mayo-Bone Souffé. First, whip a half jar of Hellmann's VSOP in Osterizer. Then, pare beef bones of meat and polish until bare and gleaming. Then simply affix "colored" tassels to the bones and insert into deep dish filled with the whipped mayonnaise. For that exciting "picket fence" effect bones may be bleached under sunlamp for 12 hours.

omg

It is a beautiful gem, and I’m sorry it’s scarce! Every word is gold.

Page from the True Light Beavers’ cookbook, reading: In May 1970, I decided to take mescaline for the first time in about a year; the reason mainly being that I just wasn't feeling well, that is to say mentally, and only somewhat physically. I've always looked upon mescaline and peyote much in the same way as the American Indians do as a sacrament being good medicine for the body and soul. It would take a volume of writing in itself to explain and describe what previous experiences had brought me to this way of seeing, but at this point, let it suffice to say that I believe with all my heart and soul that what I've gleaned from all this has been beneficial. In the midst of the aforementioned mescaline experience while my attention was focused internally, I saw very plainly that I was "clogged" up inside my body. My mental sphere was black and murky. I detected a very subtle stenchy odor emanating from the pit of my stomach. Only on rare occasion during normal consciousness did I have but a subtle sense of this feeling, only now it became more and more intense, and I became more and more nauseated. I began to realize what I had suspected for quite some time during the "normal" state, but never to such a great extent. I saw that I was unable to recover a once very beautiful and pure feeling that I had about eight years ago, during which time I ate only fruits and vegetables. I say dark heavy layers of consciousness that were the manifestations of different foods that I was eating since I stayed away from a vegetarian diet. Mind you, I didn't see this as a vague or flimsy idea, but felt it in great intensity. I began to vomit up a brown stenchy liquid, sort of a bile color. I felt a tremendous sense of relief and clarity returning with each upheaval…But I can safely say that as I became cognizant of my inner being, I saw that this childlike purity that I was attempting to recover was lost to me…

The “shut up and give me the recipe” contingent is really missing out.

@nativeapprops.bsky.social would you know or be able to point in the right direction?

Merriam-Webster examples of “show out,” as in show (someone) out, using recent examples automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. The examples both demonstrate an alternative usage, undefined here, in which the phrase meaning is more like “show up,” “perform well,” etc.—or whatever. I don’t know; I’m not the dictionary.

@merriam-webster.com, beloved, I think it’s time to update the definition of “show out” to include the usage in your recent examples. 🙏

"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.

people disagree on politics! that's how it works.

deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism

Yes! Congrats! 🤘

"Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he *ought* to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it." —Peg Bracken

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

i just think "dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is the kind of idiom you trot out when someone is baking cakes, and not when it comes to deciding if one should support a political party actively trying to legislate you out of existence

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

So smart!

Oh, that sounds excellent! I have a heap of gochugaru that I've been trying to find new ways to use...and this is it! 🙏

Bookplate with a series of six images illustrating a stick figure from the purchase of their first book to their books being unceremoniously tossed after death. Text reads "EX LIBRIS KNUD SCHØNBERG"

Are YOU the most depressing book plate ever? YES, You ARE!

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

Yeah. I expect the GOP to run on a platform of “I want these people dead”.

Democrats, as an opposition, really need to bring something to the table other than “Yeah. Same.”

if you claim to oppose fascism, opposing transphobes should be really fucking easy.

the connection between transphobia and fascism is pretty well established!

Black and white photo circa WWII. Two men at center wearing apparent USAAF uniforms, holding cigarettes. Flanked by apparent civilian women. All are smiling and seated around a table strewn with empty glasses, an ashtray, a cigarette pack, and possibly matches or a lighter.

Found in books: What are the chances anyone on here can identify these folks?

Anywho whatever happens tomorrow, the fight continues because the struggle is permanent.

A bleached blonde Barbara Cartland on the back of her cookbook The Romance of Food, wearing a rhinestone-studded pink evening gown with matching pink feather boa and pink feather duster. Gold accoutrements and flowers in the background.

This break in doomscrolling brought to you by my favorite author photo.

I would love for my local politicians to understand that sending white canvassers to majority black/brown/immigrant neighborhoods to aggressively pound on doors while whispering the tenants’ names is not the move right now.