Jerry Stratton's Blog

Many cookbooks, especially community cookbooks and often advertising pamphlets, leave off the year. Online newspaper and magazine archives can help to narrow down when the book was published.

My year in food extended from 1776 to 2026, from San Diego to Barcelona, and from Texas to Michigan. I also made several vintage books available for you to download!

My year in books covered everything from science fiction to early musicals to Italian poetry. Strange stories of lost days…

The Sestercentennial Cookery is a celebration of American home cooking for the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.

I’ll be continuing my mirror universe Trek/Golden Age of Sail mashup using the Flashing Blades rules at this year’s NTRPGC.

I’ll be running my Kolchak game again this year at North Texas, using the Daredevils rules.

The Battle of the Kegs took place on January 5 or 6, 1778. Soon after, Francis Hopkinson wrote this wonderful account of the debacle, including very personal details about the British General in charge!

The Royal Baking Powder Co. was a very combative entrant in the baking powder wars. But that kind of competitive spirit can also mean great recipes.

“…the best part of free health care is that death is always free. And fast. While it may take months to see a specialist, ‘the median wait time between first request and referral was 1 day’ for Canada’s free death health care system. Beat that or die trying.” “There’s no medical problem that free government health care can’t solve by killing you. For free.”

“Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.” “Five years after the election—when it is too late to rectify the crime, and never mind all the injury inflicted on those branded ‘election deniers’ for protesting this fraud—we learn the truth… Here you have more than 300,000 ballots illegally included in the tally, which is nearly 30 times more than Biden’s margin of (alleged) victory in Georgia.”