The Food History Almanac.
I blame the Almanac for it all, really. The Almanac is how it all began – the writing and blogging that is. How the Almanac itself began, I have written of elsewhere.
In all honesty it is not so much a Work in Progress as a Permanent Collection in Progress, which is also an Addiction – or perhaps merely an Obsession.
In short, for every day of the year, the Almanac has a glorified list of birthdays and biographies, events, newspaper reports, inventions, recipes menus and trivia – all with some sort of food significance. The menu list alone has become problematic. As there are now in excess of 5000 menus in its cyber-pages, it has been forced to separate from its parent and live in its own cyber-file. It covers times from ancient to modern, events plebeian to regal, and meals from breakfast to banquet. Its sole purpose to date has been to provide fun or inspiration for celebrations “on this day”.
The Almanac is the source of my daily blog postings, and if I blog until dementia intervenes, It will never fail to provide me with material. I would, of course, like it to have some other life as well, if only it could be wrestled under control, for it has outgrown the skill and imagination of its mother.
Any ideas, from interested publishers or interested others, will be considered with great interest.
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
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2 comments:
Oh my goodness! What a fantastic idea! I am so imp-ressed with your work and am sure I will spend many happy hours trawling through your site. Thanks so much for introducing yourself on mine!
For an example of a published pair of almanacs about an even more specialized topic*, check out Willard Espy's "An Almanac of Words at Play" and its ... sequel? I can't recall its title, but it also has "Almanac of Words at Play" in the title.
*after all, everyone eats; not everybody plays with words.
And, for the collection ... it may be time to learn how to set it up as a database. I keep meaning to take a course on databases myself, so I can't help with how to do it. But from the vanishingly little I do know, I'd guess that your project could go well into one.
Janet
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