This is New York: skyscraper champion of the world where slickers and know-it-alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where the truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye. —BEN...
There is a white vein with a very small amount of liquid in it: … Men try to catch the murex alive because it discharges its juice when it dies. They obtain the juice from the larger purple-fish by re...
That was when the Venetians made an important discovery. More money could be made buying and selling salt than producing it. Beginning in 1281, the government paid merchants a subsidy on salt landed i...
Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny parti...
Rich and poor live together in equality. The same food and similar houses are shared by all; wherefore they cannot envy each other’s hearths, and so they are free from the vices that rule the world. A...
Proteins unwind when exposed to heat, and they do the same when exposed to salt. So salting has an effect resembling cooking.
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...
Nevertheless, Rouen merchants who sold craspoix to the English paid high tariffs at London Bridge, which suggests this salted whale blubber was a luxury product in England. This would not be the last...
Modern nutritionists also warn against eating cheese in excess because of its high fat and cholesterol content.
International League of Peace and Freedom, was formed in 1867 in Geneva. Its
In some parts of Sweden it was a dream porridge, in others a pancake, that was made in silence and heavily salted. The custom was that the girl would eat this salty food and then go to sleep without d...
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.
ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.
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Cows are the leading source of hamburger meat in America. Dairy cows are very lean because they put everything into producing milk, so they make good lean ground meat.