tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post8642343796352961776..comments2024-03-11T17:08:07.679+01:00Comments on Sicily Scene: A TALE OF TWO LIBRARIESWelshcakes Limoncellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-52207809208331439212007-03-19T18:28:00.000+01:002007-03-19T18:28:00.000+01:00Thanks, Bonnie. How amazing that it's an internet...Thanks, Bonnie. How amazing that it's an internet café now! That's a good idea about putting a tribute page up.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-58775124604546648882007-03-17T17:34:00.000+01:002007-03-17T17:34:00.000+01:00What an incredible history you have! You need to m...What an incredible history you have! You need to make up an Eggelton's Library tribute page and put it online somewhere.<BR/><BR/>I looked up the address, and it is an internet cafe now!<BR/><BR/>Internet Cafe Name: Dottel<BR/>Telephone: 0117-955 8033<BR/>Address: 110 Stapleton Rd, Bristol, BS5 0PR<BR/><BR/>How about that?<BR/><BR/>We have too many books, if you can believe it! Whenever the cul-de-sac kids needed a book for a book report, their mothers would send them to our house. I guess it was quicker than driving to our local library.Ballpoint Wrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052642068447293589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-22099329804759519022007-03-12T18:58:00.000+01:002007-03-12T18:58:00.000+01:00Thank you, Shani. It woould be greatif you find o...Thank you, Shani. It woould be greatif you find out anything. Lots of hugs from Sicily, too.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-47268959926879719332007-03-12T01:19:00.000+01:002007-03-12T01:19:00.000+01:00I am going off to find out what I can about your l...I am going off to find out what I can about your library tomorrow... <BR/><BR/>I can remember creating my own library as a child - for hours and hours on end. This would have been my idea of Heaven. <BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for sharing..<BR/>hugs from Bristol... ShaniShanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16706380673746458459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-76301851824342237552007-03-10T00:40:00.000+01:002007-03-10T00:40:00.000+01:00Anne, thank you. I do miss Waterstone's and Bored...Anne, thank you. I do miss Waterstone's and Boredres! Ellee, apart from my reference books, which are obviously "dip into books" I can honestly say there are only about 6 books in my library which I have not got around to reading!Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-45012660434336325252007-03-10T00:37:00.000+01:002007-03-10T00:37:00.000+01:00Thanks, Liz. Oh, I used to love the pics on the c...Thanks, Liz. Oh, I used to love the pics on the covers in those days! Yes, that's it exactly - a mystery, a bookless home. I don't remember Air Balloon Rd [lovely name!] but I do remember the St George area. Ellee, Dickens and the Bible are an excellent start, are they not?! Yes, touching and smelling books is very sensual. CC, thanks for coming over. I agree - reading a book as a book is very different from reading online and I, too, wonder how long printed books will survive. What pleasure the next generation will lose if they do not! Lee, gosh, we think alike! When the removal men came in Cardiff, I said, "Books packed first, please. If it comes to it, you can leave the furniture" - and I meant it! The LG is such a treasure - I read it like a novel. Thanks, Steve. Yes, holding a book in your hands is so different from reading onscreen.. it activates so many other senses. Sally, I feel the same. If you browse someone's library, you get to know them! I will look out my best caponata recipe and post it soon. How wonderful your meal sounds and oh, Neal's Yard - I am drooling! WW, what a question - a "best " Ital cookery book.. I think it would have to be Marcella Hazan's "Classic Italian Cookbook" and a close second would be "Southern Italian Cookery " by Valentina Harris. Apart from the fish recipes [I am allergic to the stuff] I have cooked every recipe in the latter book and they all work! [I don't think the same author's later books are as good, though.] For pastry cooking, for me Ursula Ferrigno can do no wrong and I recommend her "Italian Cakes and Desserts".Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-86603501811512884212007-03-09T19:10:00.000+01:002007-03-09T19:10:00.000+01:00And have you really read ALL of them?And have you really read ALL of them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-85411713694447067962007-03-09T13:31:00.000+01:002007-03-09T13:31:00.000+01:00What a lovely collection. I don't have anything li...What a lovely collection. I don't have anything like that, but I do have lots and lots of books. Mainly fiction and books about all the latest countries I have visited. <BR/><BR/>When I go into Oxford I spend most of my time in Waterstones or Borders bookshops. I have had fun getting a collection going for my grandchildren....which they keep here.<BR/><BR/>Lovely story.Anne in Oxfordshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479380647784781207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-38774725990309195862007-03-09T11:58:00.000+01:002007-03-09T11:58:00.000+01:00What's your number 1 pick for an Italian cookery b...What's your number 1 pick for an Italian cookery book? I have the River Cafe books which are good but often wrong about the length of cooking time for cakes.Whispering Wallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03410656699815679312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-73368755574632028822007-03-09T10:46:00.000+01:002007-03-09T10:46:00.000+01:00My mother was a library fanatic and those weekly v...My mother was a library fanatic and those weekly visits to the library - despite the house being crammed with books - were a highlight. Books remain one of the prime pleasures of life, and the first thing I notice in other people's houses are the books, preferably shelved and stacked in every room. So .........I loved browsing your cookbook shelf and wondered if any of those Sicilian titles has a good recipe for caponata, and if so, if you could bear to share it with us. I have 2 or 3 but they're just not quite right, the best I ever had was somewhere in the Madonie, a lovely family who lived near Piano di Zucchi. Today I'm cooking guinea fowl for dinner, with potatoes roasted in goose fat and a salad of radicchio di Castelfranco - that's the lovely pale one with the red and purple splotches on the leaves that's grown in the Veneto, very bitter. Then cheese, some Wigmore from Neal's Yard, our daughter's around for the weekend so can pander to the demands of her greedy parents!Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07785812439996916465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-43909423401186651582007-03-09T08:31:00.000+01:002007-03-09T08:31:00.000+01:00Excellent post. You are a fine story teller. I l...Excellent post. You are a fine story teller. I love to read. It something about holding the book or paper in the hands as opposed to reading it on a monitor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-85658877046920940132007-03-09T07:10:00.000+01:002007-03-09T07:10:00.000+01:00I, too, have thousands of books, Welsh, and like y...I, too, have thousands of books, Welsh, and like you I could not live without them. Each I've relocated, the first things I pack are my books and the first things I unpack are my books. Once my books are up in place, I feel at home, then I can settle into the rest of the unpacking. We are so much alike you and I. My nephew paid me a visit today...he lives up in Mackay in North Queensland, many, many miles from where I live and he commented on the amount of books I have. Life would not be life without them.<BR/> <BR/>I dare not count up the amount of dollars I have spent on my cooking books! I would be a rich person today...but I wouldn't be without them. I, too, have "Larousse Gastronomique". A library of cooking/recipe books would not be complete without a copy, in my humble opinion.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15835982875620956300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-67304736498785134782007-03-08T20:50:00.000+01:002007-03-08T20:50:00.000+01:00Coming from a family of teachers, we had books eve...Coming from a family of teachers, we had books everywhere. I have always liked to have books to hand both at home and at work. I was thinking the other day that almost everything that I read now is electronic. Days spent peering into a computer screen. For the last few years, most of the books that I have read have been for the kids. I notice visiting my kids friends that very few have many books around. Lots of game boys, computers, wide screen televisions all very temporary. Will these be arranged around our houses in twenty years team. A few years ago I went to visit my father in Hereford and there on the shelves were many of the books that I remember from my childhood. I wonder when I will return to reading books regularly.Colin Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991363859883869289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-26921864936743473332007-03-08T19:40:00.000+01:002007-03-08T19:40:00.000+01:00That's a lovely story, I envy you. My parents had...That's a lovely story, I envy you. My parents had no interest in literature, though my father loved Dickens and the Bible! I always feel a warm glow come over me when I am in a bookshop, I love holding books and smelling them, and feeling the, it is a very tactile experience for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674022.post-3936900032189832232007-03-08T18:52:00.000+01:002007-03-08T18:52:00.000+01:00Not bad for a broken finger!What a fabulous place ...Not bad for a broken finger!<BR/><BR/>What a fabulous place to grow up in! The library was just down the road from us when I was growing up and my favourite place. <BR/><BR/>As well as my own books I had to choose for my grandfather: murders and cowboys, I chose by the picture on the cover!<BR/><BR/>Like you, when I visit a home I am drawn to the books. I love reading people's bookshelves and a home without books is ... a mystery to me. <BR/><BR/>What a wonderful father to have had. I'm sure your mother would indeed be delighted to know her recipes have travelled with you.<BR/><BR/>I have a feeling my great-aunt and uncle lived near stapleton. I know they lived in Air Balloon Road (I couldn't forget a name like that!)first and then in flats in St George.Liz Hindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com