Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from pastra, the Romanian verb to preserve.
Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word galaxy have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala.
On the one side were Confucians, inspired by Mencius, who, when asked how a state should raise profits, replied, Why must Your Majesty use the word profit? All I am concerned with are the good and the...
Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, All we need is Israel’s technology, Egypt’s workers, Turkey’s water, and Saudi Arabia’s oil, and I...
Modern nutritionists also warn against eating cheese in excess because of its high fat and cholesterol content.
Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest
Manichaeism
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.
In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was enti...
Fishing has always been at the heart of the culture of nations with coastlines.
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move m...
Castiglione has 150 employees. But every March another 120 are hired to work the tonnara. The leader is known by the Arab word Raiz, and the fishermen sing an Arab song, Cialome (pronounced SHALOMAY),...
Butter has the same improbable myth of origin as cheese, that it accidentally got churned in the animal skins of central Asian nomads. Easily spoiled in sunlight, it was a northern food. The Celts and...
Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York H...
At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed an...
Anthimus’s pronouncement on garum has echoed through Western cooking: Nam liquamen ex omni parte prohibemus, We ban the use of garum from every culinary role.
And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.
Active practitioners of nonviolence are always seen as a threat, a direct menace, to the state. The state maintains the right to kill as its exclusive and jealously guarded privilege. Nothing makes th...
A world without fishing would be sad.