Cooking Tips for October 2023.
Simple ingredients and special techniques helped our ancestors create delicious and nutritious meals that are also inexpensive. Growing up we had the heaviest meal at 2 pm and supper was the light meal around 7...
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Day of the Dead – Why Sugar Skulls 2023
In Europe… Before Christianity, every culture in the world had some kind of celebration to remember their ancestors, usually combined with harvest and the change of seasons. The Celts as well as the Aztecs included....
Alexander von Humboldt and “Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain”
Ralph Waldo Emerson described Humboldt as “one of those wonders of the world”—a scholar whose interests spanned astronomy, botany, chemistry, economics, geography, geology, physics, politics and zoology; a man who, even today, has more species...
12 Days of Christmas? – The Twelfth Night.
Most Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th. with family gatherings and Midnight mass not to mention Santa Clause and Christmas tree. For them, December 26, is the time to dismantle the Christmas...