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Gillian Polack (GillianP): Female
AU

Name or Pseudonym:: Gillian

About Me:: I'm an historian and a writer and I spent much of my time pondering food. Sometimes my ponderings are full of historical theory, but more often they involve recipes.

Blog:: www.foodpast.com

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Beginning to explore

Today we’re starting at the very beginning. Oddly, the first recipes in the new handwritten book (new old book – it gets confusing) are inserts. I’m being very careful to retain the order of them and have them stay where they were put by previous owners until I can work out if there is any [...]

A thinking day

I promised recipes. The dateless missing-pieces sort that one only finds in handwritten cookbooks of unknown ancestry. That can wait. First I want to talk about the food history value of my new possession. Somehow I’m in historian mode today rather than cook mode. Everyone around me has been getting [...]

Home made cookbook

I have a new book for you. Not the pub book – that’s still wherever it managed to hide itself. (It won’t hide forever, I promise.) No, my new book is something quite different. In fact, it’s neither new nor published: my sister found it for me. It’s someone’s handwritten recipe [...]

Prohibition Banquet, Prizes! (thinking ahead to October)

Today is an announcement day, because I haven’t had one for far too long and you will start thinking that life is all about excitement and interest. Or ought that to say that you may lose the excitement and interest in life? Hmm. I think I’m making myself a hot drink, just [...]

Pubs, beer and much merriment

Dear Pub Book, you know you were supposed to be at my desk tonight, so why aren’t you where I left you? I can’t write about you if you refuse to make an appearance. When you come back, talk to me nicely and I’ll think about giving you a spot. While you [...]

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I check both of those most days - they're good, aren' tthey? Read More »

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I keep an eye on Cooking for Engineers, too. It's a great deal of fun. Read More »

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I could. But then I'd be hungry forever!! Read More »

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Timezones and me and NaBloPoMo

We're not happy with each other, timezones and me.

I was so pleased to only have one day of NaBloPoMo to go and to have safely reached the end (well, just about) and to have blogged every day and even twice some days for both my blogs, that I took a celebratory look at my blogs. I wanted to exult over seeing each and every day filled in.

My LJ blog is in Australian time and shows that I blogged every single day and then a bit. My other blog is in US time. It has gaps. The thing…

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Posted by Gillian Polack on November 28th, 2007 at 5:02pm — 12 Comments (Add)

NaBloPoMo

You can find my blog entries for the month on http://www.foodpast.com (and there's a feed from there to my page here). I'll also be trying (though not as hard) to post every day at http://gillpolack.livejournal.com, but these posts are mostly not serious and normally rather strange.

Posted by Gillian Polack on October 9th, 2007 at 3:05am — No Comments (Add)

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At 10:55am on November 8th, 2007, Kate said…: Hi Gillian! Welcome to the Jewish Bloggers group. Good luck with your blogging!

Todah,

Kate

At 7:30pm on November 5th, 2007, Anaiis said…: Hi! I came here by way of the LJ comm at NaBloPoMo. I hope you don't mind I'm adding you!

At 2:42pm on October 11th, 2007, Jean Lockwood said…: Hi Gillian,
Gearing up to write, write, write?
I am trying to- not easy when I am tired.
Happy writing!!

At 2:19am on October 10th, 2007, Gillian Polack said…: I don't type nearly as effectively with one hand behind my back, though. If I blogged using my big toe instead of my hands that would make it *really* interesting.

Are Canberra bloggers taking over the blogverse, or is it my imagination? It makes sense, us taking over the blogverse. We have intellect, charm and an amazing lack of sunbronzed lifesavers in our favour.

At 2:16am on October 10th, 2007, Trish said…: Hi Gillian,

I have a feeling you're going to be able to do this NaBlo thing with one hand tied behind your back. Good luck!

Cheers
Trish (fellow Aussie blogger)

At 1:16am on October 10th, 2007, Andrew Boyd said…: Hi Gillian,

I might have seen you presenting a few years back on Arthurian literature in history - are you still based in Canberra?

Cheers, Andrew

At 6:03pm on October 9th, 2007, ReallyGinny said…: Hi Gillian - welcome to LiveJournal bloggers. I love strange and not serious posts, so I will be sure to check out your LJ!