Get thee to a nunary!
This 16th-century Spanish mystic wrote The Ascent of Mount Carmel, detailing the soul’s journey toward union with God through purgation.
Who is St. John of the Cross?
This knife cut produces long, thin matchstick-like pieces, usually about 1/8 inch thick.
What is julienne?
In The Brothers Karamazov, this character delivers the parable of the “Grand Inquisitor.”
Who is Ivan Karamazov?
This 20th-century German philosopher’s Being and Time distinguishes between “ontic” and “ontological” inquiries.
Who is Martin Heidegger?
In chess, this is the only piece that can “jump over” other pieces.
What is the knight?
This medieval mystic’s Revelations of Divine Love contains the earliest known book in English written by a woman.
Who is Julian of Norwich?
This moist-heat method cooks food slowly in a covered pot with liquid, often used for tougher meats.
What is braising?
This modernist novel by Virginia Woolf takes place entirely over the course of one day in post-WWI London.
What is Mrs. Dalloway?
This skeptical early modern thinker, a Scotsman, famously concluded that “custom is the great guide of human life,” not reason.
Who is David Hume?
This element, used in nuclear reactors and named after a planet, has the atomic number 92.
What is uranium?
This Latin phrase meaning “from the work worked” expresses how the sacraments confer grace by their very operation.
What is ex opere operato?
This traditional French charcuterie preparation suspends cooked meat in its own fat for preservation.
What is confit?
This postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon begins with the line: “A screaming comes across the sky.”
What is Gravity’s Rainbow?
In his Enneads, this philosopher argued that all reality emanates from the One, through Intellect and Soul.
Who is Plotinus?
This musical instrument’s name means “jumping flea” in Hawaiian.
What is the ukulele?
St. Teresa of Ávila’s Interior Castle describes this many “mansions” as stages of spiritual progress toward union with God.
What is seven?
This Italian cheese is traditionally made from the whey left over from other cheeses like mozzarella.
What is ricotta?
This 1939 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, whose title references a philosophical concept, follows the life of Antoine Roquentin.
What is Nausea?
This 20th-century philosopher developed the idea of “the face of the Other” as the ethical foundation of human responsibility.
Who is Emmanuel Levinas?
This ancient city, now a UNESCO site in Turkey, was believed to be destroyed in the Trojan War.
What is Troy?
This term, from Dionysian mysticism, refers to knowledge of God through negation, describing what God is not.
What is apophatic theology (or via negativa)?
This red spice, made from dried peppers, is essential in Hungarian goulash (where it's considered a national treasure)
What is paprika?
This Shakespeare play includes the character Autolycus, a roguish peddler and pickpocket.
What is The Winter’s Tale?
This French philosopher’s Difference and Repetition critiques representational thinking and proposes a philosophy grounded in becoming rather than being.
Who is Gilles Deleuze?
This rare grammatical mood, found in some languages like Finnish and Turkish, expresses a wish or hope.
What is the optative mood?