Rice is prevalent in so many cultures that it is no surprise to find a variety of types and dishes to explore.
A Portrait of Tenochtitlan
Another, more ambitious project to remap the ancient Aztec capitol.
For a new generation of Marines, 9/11 is history
This Patriot Day – does anyone still call it that? – a look at the most recent batch of American Spartans.
Eating bread when scared? There’s science behind the Mexican ‘bolillo’ tradition.
Hey, if it works, don’t question it too hard.
A photo of ‘Bhutan’s Babe Ruth’ went viral. Can it boost baseball there?
There is talk of putting divisive country acts in the Super Bowl halftime show. I am all for it. Football is not a global phenomenon. It never will be. Marginalize it. Diminish it. Go on, you don’t need my help. Give it to the dead enders. I won’t miss it.
The world has soccer/futbol and basketball. And – maybe – there is room for more baseball across the globe. If nothing else, here’s a great story of one attempt to grow the game.
Digging through the past
Been trying to recover posts from the old Movable Type pages. It is hard since a lot of it is deprecated and unusable. That said, I keep running into dead links – video, images – from sites that are gone or from technology (Flash) that no longer functions. So, I am just leaving those posts behind.
Am I self-censoring? Maybe, but I don’t mean to. In some cases I literally cannot translate the code over in such a way that WP can even recognize it.
Progress I guess.
Food Innovations That Came from War
War has all kinds of consumer treasures. Not that air fryers are a good reason to start a war.
How Fanta Was Created for Nazi Germany
Funny, I remember the Fantanas were more ethnically diverse than Prussian Blue.
Well, this might take awhile
In the interests of rolling everything over to WordPress, I am going to start backfilling posts from both the old Movable Type blog and what remains of the original pages I had created way back when, with the hopes of getting rid of both. This will, of course, take a long time but if you see stuff disappear or duplicate here or there, that’s why.
What Is Worcestershire Sauce?
A look at one of the sauces I’d love to use in more and different ways.