Food & History of Science
When I'm not working, one thing I like to do is cook. I've often wondered if I should not switch the order of my priorities: start working in a kitchen and read history in my free time. I've also toyed with the idea of working as a cook in the afternoons and evenings, saving my mornings for writing. Alas, some friends with restaurant experience have disabused me of these naive notions. There's no way I would get a job sans professional experience other than maybe (maybe!) prepping veggies in the morning and washing dishes all night.
So I've been casting about for other ways to combine my work and free time. Or rather, I should say, for ways to pass my hobby off as work.
As some of you may know, I'm supposed to be writing a dissertation about the history of paleontology around the turn of the 20th century. One of the people who figures pretty prominently in my story is Barnum Brown (who some of you may remember from a previous post). It turns out that Brow…
So I've been casting about for other ways to combine my work and free time. Or rather, I should say, for ways to pass my hobby off as work.
As some of you may know, I'm supposed to be writing a dissertation about the history of paleontology around the turn of the 20th century. One of the people who figures pretty prominently in my story is Barnum Brown (who some of you may remember from a previous post). It turns out that Brow…