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Dainty Dining: Dining with Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott
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Friday, March 16, 2012. Dining with Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott. My research into the department store restaurants and tea rooms of yesteryear continues, and this week I received the latest vintage postcard to add to my collection, one from Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department store in 1906! I love the elegant columns shown on this card written Dec. 28, 1906. It reads, "Dear Meta, Do you see me at one of these tables lunching? Posted by Angela McRae. Labels: Carson Pirie Scott. Welcome to the Museum.
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Dainty Dining: A nappy from the Marshall Field Tea Room
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Friday, May 25, 2012. A nappy from the Marshall Field Tea Room. I've made just a few additions to my collection of department store tea room memorabilia this year, but one of the ones I was most thrilled to find was this Marshall Field nappy. What is a nappy? From the same tea room. Lamberton China, a division of Sterling, made this dish. The seller was actually quite helpful and told me he once loaned this piece for an exhibit of Marshall Field memorabilia. Wouldn't it be great if, one day, I co...The H...
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Notes from Naptime: March 2011
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Of Lists and the Easter Story. Jesse was out of town last weekend because his grandmother of 98 years passed away. The girls in our family stayed home, and when I asked Hadley what she wanted to do on Saturday and Sunday she suggested we make a LIST. Of all the activities we could do. I, in turn, had one of those moments similar to parents sitting in bleachers at a sporting event watching their kid do whatever she does to gain a point: I said, "THAT'S MY GIRL! Aren't you dead whe...
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Notes from Naptime: What To Do When Daddy Goes to Hawaii For a Week
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. What To Do When Daddy Goes to Hawaii For a Week. Drown your sorrows in ice-cream. Spend his per diem at Toys R Us. Go out with your six and under friends where the food and balloons are free and people are riding around on unicycles. It makes the time go by much faster. Jealous of Hawaii.but I am sure the toys r us trip made the girls feel better! August 23, 2011 at 6:16 PM. Last time we went to hawaii it sucked. (ohmygoshitwasawesome! August 25, 2011 at 10:44 PM. When I grow up...
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Dainty Dining: A John Wanamaker teaspoon
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Friday, March 2, 2012. A John Wanamaker teaspoon. Recently I was doing a little online window-shopping when I came upon a site with an interesting teaspoon for sale. The seller said they didn't know what the initials JW on the handle stood for, but I knew! They stand for "John Wanamaker," the legendary department store in Philadelphia (and with branches elsewhere, of course). So why would I want a single teaspoon that came from a Philadelphia department store? Posted by Angela McRae. Welcome to the Museum.
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Fissler Foodies: Pressure Cooked Mashed Potatoes in 10 minutes, from Chez Bettay, the Vegan Gourmet!
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Friday, October 5, 2012. Pressure Cooked Mashed Potatoes in 10 minutes, from Chez Bettay, the Vegan Gourmet! Now that the weather is cooling down, a nice hot plate of mashed potatoes may be on your mind. To save time, you can use mashed potato flakes.if you don't mind weird additives like mono and diglycerides, sodium acid pyrophosphate and so on. Or, you can cook fresh potatoes in a Fissler Vitaquick Pressure Cooker. The way Chez Bettay did. Check out her quick, easy, no-peel, vegan recipe here.
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Fissler Foodies: July 2012
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Monday, July 23, 2012. Let's make BBQ Pulled Pork, in a pressure cooker! 1 ½ lbs pork shoulder (pork butt). Cooking oil or olive oil. 1/2 cup beef broth. 1 Tbsp. liquid smoke. 3/4 cup brown sugar. 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper. 1 tsp garlic powder. 1 onion, cut in half lengthwise. Cut pork into fist-sized chunks or smaller. In a large bowl, season the pork with the brown sugar, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator, if desired. Heat the pressure cooker. There wa...
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The American Table | Friends of the Table
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Soups & Stews. Sauces & Spreads. Grains & Breads. Friends of the Table. Friends of the Table. There are many friends who always have a spot at the table. A few are listed here:. The Butcher’s Guild. An American fraternity of butchers committed to traditional practices, local agriculture and humane slaughter. I can’t say enough about the good things this group is doing. The American Tables’ former “Home-Away-From-Kitchen.” They gave this blog a great start. Food blogs I follow and admire:. Victoria Rumble...
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Dainty Dining: July 2012
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Monday, July 23, 2012. Carson Pirie Scott Women's Club Sandies. Earlier this year, I added to my collection of department store tea room memorabilia by purchasing a postcard showing the Carson Pirie Scott tea room in Chicago and a 1962 cookbook by the Carson Pirie Scott Women's Club. (They are shown here. If you'd like to see them.) Over the weekend, I decided to try the book's recipe for Sandies, and I must say these were easy and delicious, a perfect teatime treat! Posted by Angela McRae. The Restauran...
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Dainty Dining: A vintage tea room menu from Lord & Taylor
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Friday, May 18, 2012. A vintage tea room menu from Lord and Taylor. Vintage menus from department store tea rooms are always fun to read, and perhaps the most unique one yet is this small menu (4-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches) from the Bird Cage tea room at Lord and Taylor, a store founded in New York in 1826 and still in business today! Can you see what's inside, that unusual little artifact up top? For a clue, see some images of the Bird Cage restaurant/tea rooms here. It was, after all, called the BIRD Cage.
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