@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe contrasted wealthy Victorians searching for exciting new foods with poor agricultural laborers surviving on extremely monotonous diets.
He believed insects could provide inexpensive additional food for working-class families.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe particularly favored vegetable-feeding species, which he regarded as clean and wholesome.
Agricultural pests were especially attractive to him because eating them could accomplish two things at once: provide additional food and reduce the insects destroying crops.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe even pointed to people who ate cheese containing cheese mites and dismissed the mites because they were "only cheese."
By the same reasoning, Holt joked, caterpillars that lived entirely upon cabbage could be considered "only cabbage."
@emory-f8.bsky.socialVictorians already ate oysters, lobsters, shrimp, snails, and other creatures that could appear equally strange if people hadn't been accustomed to thinking of them as food.
He argued that there was nothing inherently disgusting about eating an insect.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialHe seriously believed that Britain's prejudice against eating insects was irrational and that properly prepared insects could become fashionable delicacies.
His book began by confronting what he considered the biggest obstacle: disgust.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialDid you know?
In the Victorian era, an author tried to convince people that insects belonged at elegant dinner parties, complete with multi-course menus featuring beetle larvae, moths, and grasshoppers?
Vincent M. Holt published a small book titled Why Not Eat Insects?
@arlandolpho.bsky.socialBrompton Cemetery, c.1850's.
Sherlock Holmes was shot here,
I felt it.
#victorian #brompton #london #england #uk #unitedkingdom #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome
@processorpress.bsky.socialWhen the free mortgage help line goes silent, the only thing that rises is your interest rate.
#Victorian #Mortgage #Helpline #Finance #Satire
https://processorpress.com/story/836/victorian-mortgage-helpline-goes-dark-as-rates-bite
@lillylilly60.bsky.socialwww.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G8KZ83P7
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8KZ83P7
Spanning three generations, Eaton Rise Manor is an intriguing, sweeping saga set in the Victorian era. Shocks and surprises are never far away.
#Victorian #womensfiction #saga
@breakinglight.bsky.socialIf you are at all into historical costuming, you know how often folks have opinions about how historical dramas handle the hats! Why are they so often missing or inaccurate?
#theatre #film #filmmaking #history #costume #victorian #behindthescenes #technicaltheater
@historyrage.bsky.socialHUGE THANKS TO @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social for tonight's livestream “The real Sherlock Holmes didn’t begin at 221B Baker Street” 🕵️♂️
We talked #Victorian medical detective work 🔍, a murderer thanking Joe Bell from the scaffold 😳, and why the real Bell was far more than #SherlockHolmes in disguise.
@independentstateofcaledon.com🧵(1/7) Here are the upcoming events in Caledon for this week! All times are in SLT. If you want to see your own event in Caledon posted here, please contact me inworld.
#SecondLife #SL #Victorian #Steampunk prmfd.co/p/HbpwYJAx7f5J
@museumpodcast.bsky.socialWhy keep a house as a museum? For Woody LaBounty, President & CEO of San Francisco Heritage, houses like the Haas-Lilienthal house are a time capsule that you can walk through.
@marciaclayton.bsky.social💙📚💙 #booksky Years of resentment and long-hidden secrets are revealed; can the Fellwood family survive such a scandal? A gripping Victorian family saga.
mybook.to/AnniesSecret
#historicalromance #Victorian
@red-wolf.bsky.socialGeometric Pattern: Canterbury: Lily / #RedWolf redwolfoz.redbubble.com/works/182496... via @redbubble www.spoonflower.com/designs/2245... via @spoonflower #art #geometricpattern #retro #victorian #square #triangle #diamond #artdeco
@emory-f8.bsky.socialOnce free, Millie and Christine continued performing, but their situation was fundamentally different.
They were no longer enslaved property who could legally be bought and sold. Their career expanded into an extraordinary international success.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialThey became known as the “Two-Headed Nightingale.”
The end of slavery did not end attempts by other people to control them.
A complicated dispute developed over custody of the sisters and control of their lucrative performing career.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialThe man who controlled them before emancipation, Joseph Pearson Smith, recognized that they could become much more successful performers if they were educated.
They received instruction in reading, writing, music, and other subjects and developed considerable musical ability.
@emory-f8.bsky.socialThe sisters were sold while still very young and passed through the hands of various owners and showmen.
They were exhibited before paying audiences and were even kidnapped amid disputes over who possessed the right to display them.
@drmartinkolby.bsky.social