Jamie Schler
Writer at Freelance
Food detective. Writer, cookbook author, podcaster, jam maker, hotel owner. Discover me at https://t.co/p7pavjwL52 and let's #endALS
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1 week ago |
jamieschler.substack.com | Jamie Schler
All woes are lighter if there’s bread. — Miguel de CervantesIn the very fine year of 1700, Claude de Pinteville published Le Petit Trésor de Santé, The Little Treasury of Health. Within its pages, one finds the most useful remedies for every ailment, from coughs and fever, headaches and melancholy, to rabies, leprosy, and the plague. He also gives sound advice for preserving one’s health, a “good diet for a good life”.
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2 weeks ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Jamie Schler
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." —Franklin D. RooseveltI’ve visited the battlefields of Verdun and the beaches of Normandy. I’ve seen the trenches in the Somme, preserved by the Canadians as a memorial to those who fought and died on those now-sacred grounds.
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4 weeks ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Jamie Schler
“All woes are lighter if there’s bread.”—Miguel de Cervantes“The most necessary of all foods, which Divine Goodness has created for the maintenance of man's life, is Bread. His blessing extends so far over this food that we are never disgusted by it, and the most precious Meats cannot be eaten without Bread.” So wrote Nicolas de Bonnefons in 1655 in his influential tome Les Délices de la Compagne, explaining why he opens his book with the chapter on bread. Bread. The staff of life.
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1 month ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Jamie Schler
“It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.” —Roger L’Estrange, Aesop’s Fables, 1692I recently came across the notes I jotted down in 2016 of a conversation I had with a young man whose family produces truffles. He spoke to me eloquently, enthusiastically, lovingly about his métier, his work, and his passion for the black diamond of Chinon.
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1 month ago |
jamieschler.substack.com | Jamie Schler
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ― Thomas JeffersonA woman I have recently become friends with on social media called me lucky. Just this morning, she told me how lucky I was to be living in France, in Europe, outside of the United States at this point in time. Her statement reminded me of a moment a long time ago, standing on a New York City street corner with a friend.
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