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AMERICAN FRONTIER FOODS
Experience the kinds of foods eaten on the frontier and the methods used to prepare them.TIPS ON CAMPFIRE COOKINGCoals should do the cooking on a campfire. Flames do not serve any function except to...
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COWPEA - COMPANION OF MISERY IN SLAVE SHIPS
Though most of our common introduced plants reached the Americas by way of Europe, the cowpea (Vigna sinensis) was brought from Africa to Jamaica about 1675 by slave traders. They carried cowpeas as...
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THE CORNISH PASTY
It was once said that the Devil would never dare to cross the River Tamar into Cornwall for fear of ending up as a filling in a Cornish Pasty. For centuries the Cornish have been filling their famous...
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THE WATERMELON
An African Native of World Popularity.The watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris) is hardly a vegetable, but it is such a universally popular truck or garden crop that it has a place in this article.The...
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MOUFLON (Ovis aries)
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: ChordataSubphylum: VertebrataClass: MammaliaOrder: ArtiodactylaFamily: BovidaeSubfamily: CaprinaeGenus: OvisSpecies: Ovis ariesGeographic RangeDomestic sheep live worldwide in...
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PROTEGENDO AS VACAS DE FUKUSHIMA
Irritado pelo que ele considera as tentativas do governo japonês de evitar as verdades inconvenientes do acidente nuclear de Fukushima, Masami Yoshizawa voltou para sua fazenda, localizada ao redor da...
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AS VITAMINAS
Em 1602, uma frota de navios espanhóis navegava pela costa pacífica mexicana quando os tripulantes adoeceram mortalmente. “O primeiro sintoma é dor no corpo inteiro, que fica sensível ao toque”,...
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PADRE ANCHIETA: CRISTÃO OU JUDEU?
Devido à sua origem judaica, a família de Anchieta foi penitenciada pela Inquisição, e ele próprio sofreu, ao ser recusado por um seminário.A notícia de que o papa Francisco acolheu o processo de...
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DEUS ESTÁ DE OLHO
Religiões vigilantes ajudaram a criar civilizações, defende livro.Uma dica da pesquisa de ponta em psicologia para quem organiza reuniões de condomínio: para minimizar a chance de que alguém tente...
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TEMPERO QUE DÁ GOSTO
Mariana Dahia VidalPor muito tempo, rejeitou-se a essência do que era nosso. Chique era o que vinha da Provence francesa, como o alecrim, a sálvia. Quanta injustiça!”Em 1661, François Vatel, tentando...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE COFFEE
AFRICAN ORIGINS - (Circa A.D. 800)Goats will eat anything. Just ask Kaldi the legendary Ethiopian goatherd. Kaldi, the story goes, noticed his herd dancing from one coffee shrub to another, grazing on...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF EGGPLANT AND INDIAN MUSTARD
Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is so called because the first varieties known to English-speaking people bore colorful eggshaped fruits.The Spaniards of the 16th century called eggplants berengenas, or...
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PERCHÉ SIAMO PIÙ ALLERGICI
Negli ultimi 20 anni i pazienti sono aumentati di oltre il 50%. I motivi? Eccessiva igiene, effetto serra e cattiva alimentazione.I più sensibili starnutiscono già da gennaio, qualcuno comincia a...
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HISTORY OF GRAPE GROWING
Plants have been the most important objects which people have borrowed from their neighbors in their business of advancing civilization. All the high civilizations have been built up upon cereal...
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FRENCH FOOD AND CULTURE
Impossible. Impossible to think of France without at once being pleasantly assaulted with a sensuous vision of velvety wines and tempting French foods. Is this reputation a carefully nurtured legend or...
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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF BEEF PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES
Historical overview of beef production and beef organizations in the United States.AbstractThe objective of this article, adapted from the book Building the Beef Industry, is to summarize the 100-yr...
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MILESTONES OF MILK HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES
Milk and milk products have played an important role in America's history since 1611, when the first dairy cows were brought to Jamestown, Virginia. Since those early days, the industry has...
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HISTORY OF MARGARINE
Although it has been around for over a century, margarine was not always the preferred tablespread in the U.S. In 1930, per capita consumption of margarine was only 2.6 pounds (vs. 17.6 pounds of...
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HISTORY OF THE RUM
"There’s nought no doubt so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion" ( Lord Byron)Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest, Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of Rum. – 17th century 401(k) savings plan for...
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HISTORY OF SAUSAGE MAKING IN AMERICA
In the cold of the early American winter, butchering was an annual affair. On the farm, the large animals raised for the family’s meat were killed, dressed out, and preserved in a number of ways....
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