Tea at Trianon: Nutrition and Local Foods

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Nutrition and Local Foods

Just Jen has a really intriguing interview with a nutritionist about homesteading and the benefits of eating locally grown produce. Share

4 comments:

blog nerd said...: Thanks for the link. :); June 9, 2009 at 12:48:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Thanks for offering the interview, Jen. This is a topic that a lot of people want to learn more about, I think.; June 9, 2009 at 12:56:00 PM EDT
Roger Buck said...: I feel gratified to see this kind of link in a - very interesting - site like this.

Too often, I have felt a certain opposition between a traditional Catholicism and ecological concerns.

I think the two go together, and need to go together.

Both involve a rejection of the horrors perpetrated by modernism ...

Both are necessary to save the earth ...

Although this should not be taken as giving the two equal significance.

The Faith comes first!

I am glad to have discovered this rich and meaningful site ...; June 10, 2009 at 12:10:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Thanks, Roger. The Faith comes first! AMEN!; June 10, 2009 at 12:41:00 PM EDT