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THE GALILEO AFFAIR
The waiting was excruciating. His mind raced, yet Galileo Galilei remained very still, sitting quietly in a wooden chair, his hands folded in his lap. Confined to a small but comfortable suite inside...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CULINARY MOVEMENTS
Over the last half century or so there have been a couple of major culinary movements that have left their indelible mark on the way in which we think about food today. The first of these was Nouvelle...
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ETHNIC FERMENTED FOODS AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OF JAPAN
IntroductionJapan is an island nation surrounded by the sea, which is made up of 4 main big and more than 6800 small islands, located in the east of the Sea of Japan and in the west of the Pacific...
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I CARTONI DELLA PIZZA SONO VELENOSI?
“Un milione e trecentomila pizze al giorno escono dal forno, entrano in un astuccio di cartone, pronte per essere portate a casa. Vi restano per molti minuti, il tempo di essere trasportate a...
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CLASSICAL MYTH OF DANGEROUS WOMEN
Classical myths abound in dangerous women: women who in one way or another bring men to death. Often they are motivated by a passion for revenge and they kill out of rage, or jealousy, or grief....
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DID KING ARTHUR REALLY EXIST?
Possibly the best-known and least-known figure of the Celtic Dark Ages. Everyone knows the name of Arthur, but there are many different views about his historicity. Some scholars think he was a real...
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CEREALI. MENO ZUCCHERO, PLEASE...
Cominci bene se lo zuccero non è troppo. Anche se i cereali sono una valida scelta per la prima colazione dei bambini, occorre fare attenzione a quali si scelgono: alcuni sono troppo zuccherati.Ci sono...
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MOYEN AGE A TABLE!
Viande ou poisson ? Vin ou cidre ? S’ils souffrent souvent de la faim, les hommes du Moyen Age ont développé une véritable économie de l’alimentation – et un art de la table qui inspire aujourd’hui...
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ANIMAL PROCESSING IN ANCIENT EGYPT
CattleScenes of butchery of cattle, fish, and fowl arc probably more frequently depicted in tomb paintings and wooden models than any other scenes of food processing, except possibly the preparation of...
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THE GOOD BUTCHER AND THE GOOD CHEF
Italian master butcher Dario Cecchini, who is highly respected as a legend throughout the trade, often says that four distinct elements define meat that can be deemed “good”:1. A Good LifeThe animal...
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LA "LEYENDA NEGRA" CONTRA PÍO XII
En 1963, cinco años después de la muerte de Pío XII, estalló el plan de deshonra hacia Pacelli que venía fraguándose desde hacía ya años. La obra de teatro titulada El Vicario de Rolf Hochhuth -...
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A COUVE-FLOR
Leopoldo CostaA couve-flor é um cultivar da espécie Brassica oleracea, do grupo Botrytis, da família das Brassicaceae. Tem caule curto, folhas oblongas verde-escuras com a nervura central...
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MAHON E MAYONNAISE
O nome de "mayonnaise", um dos mais apreciados condimentos da cozinha internacional, feito à base de gema de ovo, azeite de oliveira, vinagre e sal, representa uma deturpação do seu lugar de origem -...
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ATTACK OF THE ANTI-MEAT CRUSADERS!
Lessley AndersonMeat eating is under attack! And yet you may not have noticed all the noise—new, shocking reports from the World Bank, United Nations, and more—because you were too busy mawing on that...
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TEN REMARKABLE WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Lady GodivaMARIE ANTOINETTEBorn an Austrian princess in a turbulent time, Marie Antoinette (1755–1792) was married to Louis XVI of France at the age of fourteen to end hostilities between Austria and...
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MONOGAMY AND POLYGYNY IN GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
Why Greco-Roman Monogamy MattersTo a modern Western audience, the fact that ancient Greeks and Romans were not supposed to be married to more than one person at any given time, nor even to cohabit with...
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MUSHROOMS
Food historians tell us prehistoric peoples most likely consumed fungi and mushrooms. These foods were easy to forage and incorporate into meals. The Ancient Romans appreciated the taste and grew...
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THE CANADIAN GRAPE REVOLUTION
Ontario's vintners are standing up to bureaucracy and pushing wine into bold new territory.In February of this year, the owners of the Old Third winery in Prince Edward County received a strange email...
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THE CARDAMOM
Cardamom is harvested by hand just before the fruit is ripe—if left to mature, the pods will split open and the seeds will be scattered and lost. Because the pods do not all ripen at the same time,...
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PARIS AT MEALTIMES
There has never been a shortage of reasons to travel in France: gothic cathedrals, Norman churches, and royal châteaus are all attractions, but when all is said and done, star-hunting (by which I mean...
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