{"id":14783,"date":"2023-05-05T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/?p=14783"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T08:15:23","slug":"the-marmites-travel-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/the-marmites-travel-log\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marmite\u2019s Travel Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last weekend, I decided to hop on my bike and, as I arrived in a neighbouring village, I noticed the local flea market; lots of people around and loads of interesting-looking little stands. I love flea markets; you can find true little treasures, if you take your time. And this time, that\u2019s precisely what happened!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>good half hour of meandering from stand to stand, I noticed a friendly looking bookseller, wearing heavy-rimmed glasses and smoking a pipe, as if he\u2019d been cherry-picked out of some 1950s French film. I\u2019d never seen him at any other flea market\u2026 My eye is immediately drawn to a box full of very old books. As I\u2019m browsing through them, I pick out the most imposing one; it\u2019s titled <em><strong>The Marmite\u2019s Travel Log<\/strong><\/em>. Strange title, right?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14783 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/the-marmites-travel-log\/travel-log-cover-900-2\/'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900-256x171.jpg 256w, https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Travel-Log-cover-900-512x342.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I open it up and, as of the first pages, I\u2019m gripped and my heart starts beating just a little faster. I\u2019d just found a graphic design gem: hundreds of pages filled with text, old pictures, drawings and hand-written annotations. There are even a number of old postcards stuck on certain pages. It\u2019s mind blowing! On closer inspection, this isn\u2019t even a printed book, it\u2019s entirely hand-written! It is, in fact, some world traveler\u2019s logbook. I come across pages about India, Japan\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ask the bookseller if he happens to know where this book came from but, he replies that he has no idea whatsoever and that it costs 60 euros\u2026 I don\u2019t even consider haggling, buy it, hop back onto my bike and head home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>The Marmite\u2019s Travel Log<\/strong><\/em> is, in fact, a travel log (as the title indicates, of course) written between 1889 and 1921 by Mr. and Mrs. Marmite. They meticulously describe their travels; for each country they report on their encounters, the places they visit but, they also meticulously record recipes, including the ingredients and the necessary steps for preparation\u2026 The most astonishing thing, however, is that I discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Marmite were actually vegans! The word itself is never mentioned but they do frequently comment on how it\u2019s \"nigh impossible to find dishes without animal ingredients\". They do, however, also regularly express their joy at meeting people \"who hardly ever eat animals\".<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Quite incredible! I truly have discovered a gem, a unique piece of writing but, above all else, a dozen or so recipes from all over the world!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I will, of course, be trying every single one of them! I will catch you later and return to my precious book; currently Mr. and Mrs. Marmite are just about to leave the kingdom of Hungary\u2026 it\u2019s 1889.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I decided to hop on my bike and, as I arrived in a neighbouring village, I noticed the local flea market; lots of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-14783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mr-mrs-marmite-en","tag-mr-mrs-marmite-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14970,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions\/14970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonmarmite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}