I got Georgette's Middle Eastern Catering for my birthday party and it was so delicious!
I got a Gluten Free Grazing Box & the Combination Mezza Box which included:
Cheese Pastries, Spinach Pastries, Meat Sambousik Pastries, Falafel balls, Meat Kibbeh balls, Meat Pastries, Vine Leaves, Potato & Coriander, Baba Ganoush dip, Hummus dip, Tahini sauce, extra large Salad of your choice, Lebanese pickled vegetables, garnished with tomatoes, cucumber, lemon, fresh mint leaves, and Lebanese fried bread.
Everything was made with love and presented with care - even the gluten free box was amazing!
I highly recommend them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Georgette Chen (Singaporean, 1906-1993), Still Life with Big Durian, c.1965. Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm.
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source: bishopsbox
René and Georgette Magritte, c. 1922
Found with Yandex
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Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci)
Crown-of-thorns starfish are found on reefs in the Indo-Pacific region.
(Image credit: Georgette Douwma via Getty Images)
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Why the "Regency Era" is a fantasy realm
I've seen some interesting discussions back and forth about making historical fiction and particularly historical romance more inclusive, and I do think that there's some merit to the argument that merely inserting BIPOC as part of the ruling class erases many of the historic struggles people went through in terms of both class and race.
However, there's something that people don't seem to realize when it comes to the Regency Era: it's a fantasy realm that was primarily created by a single author.
Just as J.R.R. Tolkien published his Lord of the Rings books and created a world that would loom over the fantasy genre for decades to come, Georgette Heyer created the Regency Era in a way that I think people looking at the romance genre from the outside don't really understand.
Heyer wrote several historical romances and mystery novels prior to 1935, but it was with Regency Buck that she introduced her version of the Regency Era, a version that has actually been far more influential in popular culture than that of Jane Austen. (Most of the Austen adaptations pull more from Heyer than people realize, especially in terms of manners.) Heyer's world is all polite society heroes with a stiff upper lip and perhaps a tinge of rakishness, spirited yet virginal heroines, and a cast of supporting characters that range from younger brothers to elderly aunts.
There are very few hints that anyone outside the aristocracy is of any consequence, or even knows how to behave themselves, even when the middle-class daughter of a rich "Cit" marries an impoverished aristocrat in A Civil Contract. Sex exists, but only behind firmly closed doors and, for the heroines, only after marriage.
And what about the minorities that we know lived in Great Britain during the Regency Era? Not just the racial minorities that included Black citizens and former slaves as well as Indian immigrants, but also religious minorities? They pretty much don't exist in Heyer's world, apart from a few anti-Semitic stereotypes of rapacious Jewish moneylenders that make modern readers cringe when they stumble across an unbowdlerized edition. There are a few jokes and whispers about "unmanly" men, but that's about it for LGBTQIA+ representation as well.
Given what we now know about the Regency Era -- and we know a lot more than Heyer did when she was writing almost a hundred years ago -- we know that her view of Regency society was as artificial as Tolkien's world. Despite her use of historical sources, her romance novels are set in a fantasy world that melds the fashions and historical events of the Regency with the Victorian morals and mores that Heyer herself was raised with. The Regency Era was the late Georgian Era and was far more vulgar and free-wheeling than Heyer was willing to admit. She left out the people who didn't fit into her vision of the Regency, which showed an Anglo-Saxon ruling class that deserved to rule because of their natural superiority.
So my opinion about TV shows and films like Bridgerton and Mr. Malcolm's List that show an inclusive aristocracy in the Regency Era is ... well, it's all fantasy anyway, isn't it? Why not make the fantasy inclusive since the whole era is Heyer's illusion dressed up with a few historical details?
And if you want to try and argue that Heyer was historically accurate about everything, be prepared: I have sources that Heyer either ignored or did not have available to her. Look up Benjamin Silliman's 1803 journal of his trip to Great Britain sometime.
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Georgette from Oliver and Company.
Oh you mean miss Gender? She is literally what a coworker said I look like with my hair down. I mean there's nothing in her anthropomorphism that isn't furbait to a T. It helps that she looks and acts like a classic Hollywood starlet. Yes there are other photos I could have chosen but like... let's be real. This frame raises a lot of questions about her long hair-like ears that we were not ready to answer.
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