Long time, no see! To put it bluntly (and to get some of the where have you been, and where are you going? Out of the way), Covid really did a number on my enthusiasm for continuing this blog. Between needing to cut down on trips to – sometimes multiple – grocery stores for specialty ingredients and being locked inside with only Jess to help me eat stuff, not to mention a truly awful apartment and everything else that came along with the pandemic years, any enthusiasm I had for exploring food history pretty much shriveled and died.
And then
we – finally! – moved back to New England so I could take a job as a museum
curator at a small institution on Cape Cod, so that obviously took up quite a
bit of our collective brainspace.
I didn’t
do much with my doll collection during the last few years either, even with the
introduction of the 1980’s Courtney Moore and 1920’s Claudie Wells, but an
announcement about some even more recent historical characters got me excited
about firing up my stove in a way I hadn’t really felt in years.
I’m
talking, of course, about fellow Millennials Isabel and Nicki Hoffman.