Homekeeper's Library: Autumn Cookbooks
Instagram: @ericdiesel At the fall equinox , we achieve perfect balance between summer and winter, as on the midpoint between those two solstices , autumn arrives. We have reached Mabon as the Wheel of the Year turns, the second of the three harvest celebrations , honoring the harvest of fruits and the making of wine . Autumn décor appears in modern answer to the ancient impulse to adorn the altar with the bounty of the season. Gourds spill across mantle- and tabletop, nestled in autumn leaves in tones of scarlet, russet, gold. Pumpkins appear on porch and balcony to join the sheafs of wheat from Lammas , both anticipating the jack o’lanterns and scarecrows of Samhain . In our urban home, we uncrate our collection of autumn buildings to be placed on the credenza, illuminated from within by candlelight . On the mantel above the cookbook shelves , ceramic foxes pose against bottles of Armagnac and coffee liqueur . From those shelves, I take down cookbooks that have waited patient...