Comments on: Eating with Fanny http://www.laurieisraelthink.com/2010/07/eating-with-fanny/ Reflections on Life, Culture and Learning Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:43:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Janet Wagner http://www.laurieisraelthink.com/2010/07/eating-with-fanny/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Janet Wagner Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:43:22 +0000 http://www.laurieisraelthink.com/?p=160#comment-379 pretty clever! I don't remember the prune whip, but I do love "prune whip" yogurt. I wonder what happened to the Fanny Farmer book that Mom used. Maybe we all knew we weren't interested. I think that "mushroom liquor" might mean the juices released from cooked mushrooms. I don't remember being served farina gruel at all. My favorite meal that I remember while I was sick: toast and ginger ale. Speaking of unmarriagable qualities in women, a new book proposes that Emily Dickinson was epileptic, also a condition making women unfit for marriage, and that's why she stayed at home all the time. pretty clever! I don’t remember the prune whip, but I do love “prune whip” yogurt. I wonder what happened to the Fanny Farmer book that Mom used. Maybe we all knew we weren’t interested.

I think that “mushroom liquor” might mean the juices released from cooked mushrooms.

I don’t remember being served farina gruel at all. My favorite meal that I remember while I was sick: toast and ginger ale.

Speaking of unmarriagable qualities in women, a new book proposes that Emily Dickinson was epileptic, also a condition making women unfit for marriage, and that’s why she stayed at home all the time.

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