Texas 1905: Beyond the Realm of Worcester Sauce
And since I’m now in Texas, here’s a little cartoon I ran across. Two Englishmen go into a store at Weimar [in Texas]. “Aw, ‘ave you got henny Lea…
Read moreFrom Three Continents: Black-Eyed Peas in Mexico
This morning’s post is for those obessionistas like me who can’t resist digging into the strange and multiple paths along which people have taken plants, in this case the black-eyed…
Read moreCuisine and Language 5. Expanding and Contracting
Linguists have analyzed when and how languages expand. Only rarely is it by the natural growth of the original group that speaks the language (the Pacific Island case). More often…
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