An Orange (or Tangerine) for Christmas

Yesterday I talked with a fried who commented that Christmas was a time for memories.  So here are a couple of mine. As children, our Christmas stockings always had a…

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Classical Cider

www.metmuseum.org I subscribe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s daily feed, highly recommended. So a couple of days ago I was delighted when the title that popped up was “cider.”  …

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Cuisine and Language 6. Death, Change, Birth

Rolling right along with the series on what culinary historians might learn from linguists, see the background at the end of this post. Languages die out.  The world is littered…

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