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The Bread of Dreams: Recipes and Portraits of the Mistresses of Psomi
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The Underside of the Tapestry and the Strawberry Tart
Dear Friends at the Table, Cara amici a Tavola,
This week has been full of unexpected gifts and connections.
I'm honored to be featured as Author of the Week in Eleanor Wagner's Creeping it Reel community, where I've been sharing stories about food, travel, writing, family history, and the winding roads that eventually became The Elysian Legacy.
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“The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres.
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
“To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion”
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“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”
― The Baron in the Trees
― The Baron in the Trees
“The Psomi Mistresses are the keepers of an agrarian cult. These old ways have their roots in ancient Eleusis and Greece. In the myth of Ceres and Persephone. In the novel, Tales of the Mistress, this myth is told in reverse, where Eleone aka Persephone is looking for her mother, Maman Antaia aka Ceres.
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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The Psomi Mistresses represent the source of feminine energy, but not all the Mistresses are women.
And so, in Tales of the Mistress, the Bread of Dreams are part of what's called the pharmakon – an ancient Greek word meaning potion or elixir. And The Psomi are the protectors of not only the Bread of Dreams but also the protectors of their agrarian centered way of life. And death.”
― Tales of the Mistress, A Novel
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