Ahoy, ye scurvy students! At Fogelson Librrrrrary, you will find a small collection of pirate books upstairs in call number G535 to G537. Besides the requisite The Pirates from Time-Life, there is Memoirs of a Buccaneer, 1954; Jolly Roger, 1953; Buccaneers of the Pacific, 1928; and, for those of you who read French, the rare and wonderful Quand j'etais flibustier. Just the subtitles of the older volumes are worth a look, for example:
The Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Being a Wondrous and Unrepentant Account of the Prodigious Adventues and Amours of King Louis XIV's Loyal Servant Louis Anhemar Timothee le Golif known for his singular wound as Borgnefesse, Captain of the Buccaneers Told By Himself
Get your hornpipe out and sing ditties from The Pirates of Penzance or get other ideas from pirate songs or shanties & sea songs.
Live it up! Have a weekend pirate celebration! Dinnerrrrrr and a movie with ye maties. May we suggest:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
The Princess Bride
Yellowbeard with a surprising cast
including Cheech & Chong, Marty Feldman, John Cleese and Graham Chapman
Disney's 1950 version of Treasure Island (on VHS)
And for your gustatory delight, there are some cookbooks with fish recipes at call number TX 747. Remembering that sailors ate a lot of preserved meats and dried foods, you may want to take a look at Everything Tastes Better with Bacon (TX749.P48) and Fabulous Beans (TX803.B4B58). For those brave souls who want to make do with what is available, there is White Trash Cooking (TX715.2.S64M52) and The Tuna Fish Gourmet (TX748.T84S43).
By far, the best find for Pirate-Style Dining is Lobscouse & Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturing Novels (TX714.G77). This unmatched volume has recipes for Skillygalee, Pickled Tunny, Kedgeree, Lobscouse, Sea-Pie, Figgy-Dowdy, Solomongundy, Bashed Neeps, and Pig's Pettitoes. Chapter IV focuses on Drinks with a recipe for Rum Punch and Grog. Included with the recipes and vignettes are hornpipe tunes and ditties. Anticipating the rush for this book, I may just have to put it on rrreserrrrrrve.
For more yummy recipes for the high seas, see http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/Pirate_Recipes.html . And don't forget about Bone Soup!
For more yummy recipes for the high seas, see http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/Pirate_Recipes.html . And don't forget about Bone Soup!
Arrrr, ye lily-livered land lubber desert-dwellers, caper smartly over to the library to see what may be hiding inside the bung hole.
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