Toast Rack Ode
Toast Rack Ode by Marisa Marsey There’s been much ballyhoo o’er the centuries-old toast rack Comments across the pond – and blogosphere – too numerous to track Seems this quirky and quaint bit of...
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Margaret Crumpton and her husband Peter Crumpton are the authors of the book British Ceramic Toast Racks, published by Richard Dennis publications at The Old Chapel on Shepton Beauchamp in Somerset,...
View ArticleToast and the Brahmin pundit
Purushottama Bilimoria, PhD is Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He has held fellowships at Oxford University, Harvard University and Shimla University, India. Professor...
View ArticleDownton Abbey’s New Toaster
In his article entitled Toast and the Brahmin pundit, eminent and erudite Oxford-educated Professor Purushottama Bilmoria explains to the rather overstimulated and excitable Brahmin pundit that one...
View ArticleAdjective Awesome
Editor’s Note The following video is narrated by G. Patrick Cox and refers to Adjective International’s grave concerns for the fate of adjective “awesome” which appears on their Endangered Adjective...
View ArticleCurled Butter on Toast
Toast racks — the perfect symbol of the waning days of the British Empire? We had them. I suppose we had adopted a certain amount of British culture. I was probably the most eager Anglophile in the...
View ArticleEmeritus Chairman of the Bored
Creativity make us feel alive and the more creativity we practice the more alive we feel. -- Jeremy Geidt, Emeritus Chairman of the Bored, The British Toast Rack Society Jeremy Geidt, Emeritus...
View ArticleToasting my Grandmother
The following is a toast – a tribute – a salute – a homage – to honor my Indian (maternal) grandmother, Shirin Hassanali Gwaderi, a pioneering Nairobi schoolteacher and school principal. – Karim...
View ArticleEverything Starts Somewhere
Everything starts somewhere. I grew up in the oral storytelling tradition and my paternal grandfather told me many stories about his Kuchi Kathiawar village in Gujarat, India when I was growing up in...
View ArticleLucia Doty’s interview with Badgers
Lucia My name is Lucia and I am a middle school student in California and an Assistant Editor for Pencils for Africa. Here is my interview with Karim, who is the founder of Pencils for Africa and who...
View ArticleScrambled Africa on Toast
A Note From the Editor: Ken Aston, who was mentioned in the previous post, was a fair-minded and principled referee. However, there have been some awful referees in history: One of the worst referees...
View ArticleThe British Toast Rack
JOQ Contributor Brett Scott’s thoughts on The British Toaster Rack: I think the British toast rack is the epitome of pointless and counterproductive control. Why bother to stoically present toast in a...
View ArticleReflections on the Two Fisherman
W. Somerset Maugham was, according to many accounts, the most widely read novelist since Charles Dickens. I first became interested in Maugham in the 1980’s when I was taking a film class with artist...
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