Snape and American food

[Debbie]

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<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
>
> Dear All
> 
> Have to confess I am not sure when I am going to contribute much 
in 
> the near future.. I'm working 12-14hr days at the moment, not my 
> idea of fun at all, but inescapable until I get this new dept into 
> some sort of shape.

Sending my owl with much chocolate, yet aware that that sort of 
dementor doesn't really go away until the job is done.  We need you 
back!

> Would any of you like to step into the breach, and do some 
> organising? I am conscious you would like to get on with Snape, 
and 
> need me to do some setting up on the dbase. Could one of you post 
> exactly what sections you want, and I'll do that at least?

Ok, I've checked the archives, and the consensus seems to be on 
these 8 categories (with commentary culled from various posts):

1.Severus Snape – general character studies; examining his character 
from within the story -- e.g. is he emotional, evil,
nasty, poetic, prejudiced?  

2.Young Snape & MWPP - Discussions of Snape at school with James, 
Sirius, Lupin and Peter including analyses of Shrieking Shack I

3.Who is Snape working for?  - Analyses of motives for Snape working 
for either Voldemort or Dumbledore or both, including possible 
changes of allegiance, and analyses of Shrieking Shack II and 
Graveyard rebirth

4.Snape & love - All theories about who he may have loved ranging 
from Lily, through Mrs Norris, Florence, Bellatrix and Narcissa
 
5.Vampire/bat/animagus!Snape - Allegations that Snape is some kind 
of animagi or half-human creature

6. Snape + Harry

7. Snape + teaching style 

8. Snape as a literary construct/character - what's his function in 
the narrative? Is he a Byronic hero? Things like that, looking from 
without.

Plus the "pro" and "anti" categories, as described by Anne:
we have Pro and Anti categories which we code the posts of people 
who are very obviously arguing from a, well, Pro or Anti standpoint 
(in addition to other relevant Snape code(s))

And some additional relevant instructions --
Jen: 
When we start coding
> Snape, there may be sections clicked
> like 'characterization'; 'character development'; or 'originality
> and use of stereotypes'. I suppose the best thing to do is convert
> these to one of the two Snape characterization codes, whichever is
> most fitting. It seems redundant to keep both sets of codes.

I should have added: if the post talks about
characterization in general and uses Snape as a specific example
within the post, then a general characterization code and one 
specific
to Snape would not be redundant. 

Anne:
The acronyms end up as subcodes below the categories where they best
fit. So, LOLLIPOPS would be a subcode of Snape & Love -- and if a 
post was all about LOLLIPOPS, you would code it to that category 
only.
If it was also about other love theories for Snape, you'd code for
that also (assuming it's worth coding for the other sections at all,
of course). 

Now on to more important things --


> But, to while away my commute I am currently immersed in a 
biography of 
> one of your turn of the century poets, Edna St Vincent Millay. I 
was 
> greatly struck by a rave she wrote about American food to a sniffy 
> foodie in Paris, and wondered if such comestibles still existed 
> alongside MacDonalds?

In a word, yes.  My son prefers lobster to McDonald's.  


diamond-back terrapin done as the Baltimoreans 
> do it in a rich Madeira stew, or as the Philadelphians do it with 
egg-
> yolks, 

I have to admit I've never seen turtle on a menu anywhere though I 
don't live far from Baltimore . . . are they endangered?  Nor have I 
seen Quahog pie, though I've never been to Provincetown so it may be 
served there.  But the rest of it is alive and well and, for the 
most part, delicious (I can't vouch for Philadelphia Pepperpot).  

Debbie