Oh, thanks for those diet references! I thought it might be about certain kinds of food, not just eating nothing for long stretches.
People around Fritz: we weren't overreacting!
Certainly in line with "I think one should be content with one meal per day" to Voltaire in 1776.
Certainly in line with how freaking *gaunt* his death mask was in 1786! Final illness notwithstanding.
... and now I'm curious about his hot chocolate recipe, given how he took his coffee.
Lol! Worcestershire sauce (which no, had not been invented yet) and ginger. :P
You know, considering he made his pages take a drink of his coffee (as an anti-poisoning measure) before he would accept it, let's hope he put the mustard and peppercorns in after that step. Otherwise, it would behoove him to consider that there might be other reasons beyond regicide why they might hesitate to drink it!
In other news, I posted some autumn pictures of the Sanssouci grounds in my journal earlier, if that's of interest - all from years ago, lots of autumn, less of Sanssouci (but not nothing at least ;))
Extremely of interest! I love not only Sanssouci but also nature pics. I was so sad when Pixdaus.com went away--I used to collect nature pics for my laptop background from it. My current laptop background is, of course, this pic.
Re: Fritz/Voltaire
People around Fritz: we weren't overreacting!
Certainly in line with "I think one should be content with one meal per day" to Voltaire in 1776.
Certainly in line with how freaking *gaunt* his death mask was in 1786! Final illness notwithstanding.
... and now I'm curious about his hot chocolate recipe, given how he took his coffee.
Lol! Worcestershire sauce (which no, had not been invented yet) and ginger. :P
You know, considering he made his pages take a drink of his coffee (as an anti-poisoning measure) before he would accept it, let's hope he put the mustard and peppercorns in after that step. Otherwise, it would behoove him to consider that there might be other reasons beyond regicide why they might hesitate to drink it!
In other news, I posted some autumn pictures of the Sanssouci grounds in my journal earlier, if that's of interest - all from years ago, lots of autumn, less of Sanssouci (but not nothing at least ;))
Extremely of interest! I love not only Sanssouci but also nature pics. I was so sad when Pixdaus.com went away--I used to collect nature pics for my laptop background from it. My current laptop background is, of course, this pic.