Spice House in 'Tosa, for a couple of hours, and while here presents Rebecca with her " Mistress of Spices "
Spice Gift Box, the peppercorn study box, which includes the rare pyramid rainbow pepper mill, with the
Peppercorns Sovor special mxture, with the very limited India Tellicherry-Mangalore black peppercorns,
plus a copy of the book by Chitra " Mistresses of Spices " plus the copy of chapter XIV from the 1890
Harvard Editions book we found in the old horse barn attic back in the 1960, which includes the
Bhagwad Gita from India. Amrit. Post the piece just below here. Rebecca is part of the art project to
make the outside colored illlustration. Detail this here just below in the next writing. Show picture of the art work.
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above, Julia Child with Jill Norman at Oxford England.
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Julia Child & Patty together preparing the famous " Napoleon's French Chicken Marengo " meal, famous for it's saffron.
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Paula receives the book " Mistress of Spices " with the pyramid rainbow mill, & the special " Peppercorns Savor " mixture.
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January 2007 Gathering of the Mistress of Spices at the Spice House, Village of Wauatosa, where our young visitor from Argentina, Paul, is inducted to be an honorary memeber of this select group of intelligent, beautiful young ladies, whose headquarters is a small secret island off the coast of India. ( all ladies, mind you. ) Left to right: Ruth, Carly, Caity, Paula.
This is all fanciful metaphor, of course, as is the lovely rich book, see below, Mistresses of Spices. But true in the best sense.
" Mistresses
of Spices " meeting at our 'Tosa Spice House, Sunday Sept. 10, 2006..
Two fold purpose. One. To start the making; writing; of the Spice House manual,
based on two approaches. The ISO Standards and their western science methodology which involves specific nearly mathematical use of precise language
for purposes of tight implimentation of quality control standards.
Then the old spice culture methods of both the ancient Chinese I Ching
method, and the Hindu Kush " enneagram " method, both methods of which
get into purpose; meaning; more abstract reasons for knowing what one is doing.
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Second purpose. To make known three young lady Spice apprentices from
which one will be selected one year from now on Julia Child's birthday Aug. 16
to become an accepted member of the " Mistresses of Spices study group ".
.some writing about this selection, please click here .......
Show picture here of Dorothy Ann, and Jenni, who is one of the twelve original
members, and the three candidates: Katie, Brittaney, and Colleen.
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Four books involved in the study:
Mistresses of Spices, a novel, by Chitra Banerjee Divakarna
The Secret of the Golden Flower, by Richard Wilhelm
The Intellilgent Enneagram, by A.G.E. Blake of England
The European Common Market's I S O standard's handbook.
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The Seven Spice Books which are used for study by our Spice House apprentices:
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The Book of Spices, by Frederick Rosengardtcen Jr.
Herbs Spices and Flavorings by Tom Stobart
Spices, the large coffee table book published in Paris
Alice Arnd's Spice Book
Jill Norman's Sspice Book
Seasonings, by Sylvia Windle Humpreys
The Golden Book of Spices pub. in Racine, Wisconsin
" Spice Trails of India " by the talented Leslie Forbes.....
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