Floral, she was pretty much a ’purist’ as I understood the article, and apparently couldn’t quite wrap her head around the idea of cutting up a chicken into pieces prior to cooking them. Many of her original recipes called for a whole chicken. But she quickly came around. I’m sorry i can’t recall the source right now, it was one of those random articles regarding her beloved recipes. I may have kept it, and will look. edited to add, found the quote, which was from Julia… "When I was living in France in the early 1950s, cut-up chicken was unheard of. You bought your chicken whole," Julia Child writes for a 1987 New York Times Magazine edition. "Returning to this country some years later, I snobbishly resisted any suggestion of ready-cut chicken until I started my television series, 'The French Chef,' and was suddenly cooking for a large audience. I was rather rapidly won over to the idea of buying chicken in pieces.

Am I imagining things or are those nuns a bit naughty?

Crossing the Firth of Forth. We travelled from Edinburgh to Cupar by train.. I took this photo the day we visited Inchcolm Island.

I know it's off topic, but I am just so excited it's finally happened, and I wanted to show the people who are into photography! I was able to take a roll of film (remember my what's next? thread for photography). I'm super bummed they didn't digitize my prints; it's a picture of a picture. Sigh. Chyla kitty.