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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Dante’s Inferno, the ballet — produced by Glenna Burmer
Dante’s “Inferno” — the ballet, composed and produced by Glenna Burmer Dante Aligheri’s Divine Comedy, and especially The Inferno, has been known since its publication in Italy in about 1317 for beauty and intense humanity. In February 2014, Glenna … Continue reading
Garlic Bread, a poem
Baugettes, Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop, Anchorage. [TWCarns Photo] Garlic Bread Streamlined torpedo. Exterior, a hard brittle crust, but it’s a sham. At your core, you are soft and yielding. Indulgent tang of garlic minced in butter. My … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Food journeys
Tagged garlic bread, Hemingway, Joyce, MontMarte, Parisian waiter, Paul Winkel, poem
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The history of grasses — a timeline
Snow’s melting in Berrien County, Michigan, showing the winter wheat greening up, March 22, 2014 [Photo, Micki Glueckert] The dates given in this timeline are the best approximations available at the time of publication (March 25, 2014). One hundred million … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Food journeys
Tagged agriculture, dinosaurs, gluten, Gobekli Tepe, grasses, grasslands, hominids, humans, time line, Turkey, wheat
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Sicilian artichoke and tuna stew
Artichokes, Santa Cruz News. After Pablo Neruda Find a tuna among the market vegetables, a solitary man of war. Pair it with artichokes, their sides burnished as grenades. Take them in your market basket, home to the deep soup … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Food journeys, Sicily
Tagged artichoke, ciabbata, Mt. Aetna, Pablo Neruda, Sicilian fish stew, Sicily, tuna, tuna and artichoke stew
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