Things that caught my eye

Even at its outset, tipping engendered feelings of anxiety and resentment. In the mid-1800s, after leaving the Bell Inn of Gloucester, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle complained: “The dirty scrub…

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Walnut-Yogurt Sauce: The Missing Link?

Combining walnuts and yogurt, as Anne Mendelson suggests is common in Eurasia. It was new to me. Or so I thought. Of course, as Anne explains, “dairy animals and yogurt-making…

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Let’s Take Back the World of Milk: Lead On, Anne Mendelson

When I arrived in the United States some considerable number of years ago, I was stunned by the dairy products. Stunned as with a stun gun, not with joyous amazement.…

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