link love

Source

• lesbian pulp fiction - how to be a retronaut
• you wouldn't want to be Andy Warhol's landlord - letters of note
• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin - art of manliness
• from velouté to casserole: a question of green beans amandine and Campbell's cream of mushroom soup - gherkins and tomatoes
• semper ubi sub ubi - urban dictionary
• John Betjeman's 'Invasion Exercise at the Poultry Farm' - ancient industries
• keyboard (ASCII) art and typewriter portraiture - boingboing and letterology
• a scarf with a secret hiding place for your valuables - better living through design
• on muscular women - brain-pickings (with some 1901 Edison footage of a trapeze striptease!) and how to be a retronaut
• some valuable thoughts on living in the present - liberty london girl
• how to cast out rats & mice, the old-fashioned way (Mäuseexorzismus!) - laudator temporis acti

link love

paw salt & pepper shakers: source

• feeding James Dean's kitten Marcus - lists of note
• 'his eyes raked boldly over her' - the romance writers phrasebook - awful library books
• 'Those Various Scalpels' by Marianne Moore - lumpy pudding
• creamy peanut butter soup (urgh) - retro-food.com
• a brilliant auto-correct disaster - lazy self-indulgent book reviews
• Barbara Hanrahan on the sun - whispering gums
• 'slide to unlock' - a phrase used to describe a girl who is 'easy' - urban word of the day
• thoughts on dioramas (I love them) - the smart set
• can an astronaut imitate the falling movements of a cat? - how to be a retronaut
• on the use and abuse of condiments (in South Australia, 1858) - the old foodie
• different 'varieties' of lorem ipsum - how about orange

Mock Food links

• retro-food.com on Mock Chicken Salad (and see her Curried Fake Chicken Salad);
• the old foodie on How to Fake an Oyster (including a recipe for brains);
• the old foodie on Mock Chocolate Soup;
• some Australian mock food at unusual coleslaw;
• an article "In Praise of Mock Food" by Patricia Roberts in Gastronomica 3 (2003) (abstract here);
• "Faux Gras" - eddybles on mock food;
• Heston Blumenthal's Mock Turtle Soup (serves 500).

Here's the family's attempt at Mock Whiting:

The recipe ("Fried Cucumber") is can be found here.

The recipe ends with the hope that, 

"Probably you will find you have fried whiting."

Country cookbooks

Something to look forward to at this year's Royal Adelaide Show -- the launch of a collection of recipes from the country shows of South Australia. There's a preview in The Advertiser (3/9/08).

Image source: Wakefield Press