English Tea

This post is in honor of the flood of stories about English tea provoked by today’s wedding.  I don’t have anything to say about the latter, since I see the…

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Dates in the New World

Lots of information coming in from the comments, emails, google books, and my own library. I will try to absorb all this later today and post again tomorrow. Meantime, looks…

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From North Africa to Baja: Dates

From C. M. Mayo ([email protected]) It has always stayed with me how extraordinary it is (and yet how commonsensical) that the dates groves that flourish in Mexico’s Baja California oases…

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