If you’ve never had a muffuletta sandwich from Central Grocery on Decatur Street in the New Orleans French Quarter, you have missed one of the great culinary experiences of life. The Italian grocery has been closed for two years, after a neighboring brick wall collapsed on its roof during Hurricane Ida and the rain flooded the place. But it’s back, and so is the muffuletta.
I grew up between two distinct language cultures – the Brooklynesque of my mother’s family in New Orleans and the Deep South accent of my father’s family. I was the only member of either family that had no obvious accent; people often thought I was from the American Midwest. And I married into the Deep South accent, although my wife had very little of it herself. Experts are now saying that the iconic Southern accent is slowly disappearing.
We have a friend who’s increasingly suffering with memory problems, and it’s a very hard thing for family and friends to watch and deal with a much-loved person who will likely not remember what happened yesterday. In a very long post which is a compendium of reflections and diary entries, Joseph Mussomeli at The Imaginative Conservative tells the 10-year-plus story of his wife’s Alzheimer’s disease. Fair warning: you will be in tears.
More Good Reads
Poetry
Happy New Year – Lisa Olstein at Literary Hub.
Village Home – Martin Rizley at Society of Classical Poets.
Writing and Literature
The power of a story – Mark at My book reviews/Thoughts of a Sojourner.
Life and Culture
The descent of man: The mainstreaming of misandry – Jess Gill at The Critic Magazine.
Political correctness contra aesthetics – Harry Clynch at The Critic Magazine.
Two Murders – and the Cost of Luxury Beliefs – Rob Henderson at The Free Press.
Art
Eleanor Crowe’s Everyday – Spitalfields Life.
Faith
The Christian Life Involves Dance, Not Drudgery – Bob Flayhart at GC Discipleship.
Why Learn Greek and Hebrew? – Rob Plummer at Desiring God.
A Case for Christian Optimism – Andrew Roycroft at Thinking Pastorally.
Dad, Where Are You Going? – Tim at Live for the Line.
COVID-19
Anthony Fauci Was America’s Warmup Dictator and Footnote: I, Faucius – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
British Stuff
Gillian Tindall at St. Bride’s – Spitalfields Life.
White Cliffs in the distance – Timothy Jacobson at New Criterion.
American Stuff
American Homer: Celebrating the bicentenary of historian Francis Parkman – Luke Nicastro at City Journal.
The Early Days of American English – Rosemarie Ostler at Lapham’s Quarterly.
Video: First Love – The McClures
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