Onion-Apollo and old chorizo moon fight it out in a stewpot-cosmos of bean-stars
Category: (Pre-)Roman
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Juvenal: Will you please … learn the colour of your own bread
Class consciousness didn’t commence in the bakeries of the Industrial Revolution.
Comments at ABC
On the discovery of perhaps Neolithic paintings of seals at Nerja in Málaga.
Revealed, the identity of the horny apparition in the story of St Benedict, the blackbird, and the nettles
A 19th century Roman historian says she’s from the Roman Merula (blackbird) clan.
Is it the fault of the Greeks that the Germans are the way they supposedly are?
I sense potential for reparations claims citing Aesop.
Breogán redux
Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”
Do Welsh expats incline to rain-drenched hills?
Nature vs nurture in the Italian Jones tribe.
How Emperor Charles V ended up talking German to his horse (1)
Domain-based code-switching from Daniel Bomberg’s Jerusalem Talmud to Hieronymus Fabricius’ De locutione. Featuring the wit and wisdom of Rabbi Jonathan of Beth Gubrin, Padua’s medical school and Jewry, and the Polish utopian Jan Zamoyski. With excerpts from Fellini’s I Clowns and a bodice-ripper by Kent M Chater, whose Agent Alighieri claims that “Like the great Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Spain I speak Spanish with God, French with men, German to my horse, and Italian to the ladies.”
Separating egg yolks from whites
Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.
Brits pronouncing Barça
It’s Barker vs Barser, but you can’t blame the proto-Lebanese.