1785 in 2023; A New Year?
It's true, we will be celebrating a new year and with new years, typically comes new resolutions. I love a New Year's resolution and often participate in them. This years resolution of mine will be going back in time...Poldark time. I am a new fan of the series Poldark, Downton Abbey and the Gilded Age. For me, that period in time, in this case 1785, was all about survival. I've always wondered if I could have survived in that time. If we run out of milk today, we have several options: 1) We can hop into our cars and go pick up a gallon. 2) We can stay in our cars and have the store employee bring it out to us or 3) Probably the most foreign to Poldark's day, we can have the store deliver the milk to our home. Sounds insane when I think about how the Poldarks and other villagers of Cornwall survived the winters waiting for a shipload of fish! I recently purchased, The Unofficial POLDARK Cookbook. As with Downt...