Literary Breakfasts – Breakfast Detective

Hard Roll Life: Breakfast at a European Budget Hotel in 1977

June 7, 2017Sheila Aceves

Erma Bombeck might seem like an unlikely hero for a thirteen year old girl, but she was one of mine at that age. I picked up a copy of If Life Is A Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing In The Pits? in 1984, and I was a devoted fan from then on. I…

The Great Lavra’s Garlic Test

June 1, 2017Sheila Aceves

Robert Curzon, the Victorian-era English explorer who rescued, (or plundered, depending on who is telling the story), the manuscripts being stored in the world’s monasteries, wrote of a test that he had to pass in order to gain entrance to the library at Great Lavra. He was required to breakfast with the abbot on a…