Elogio de la casta y de lo casto
Con una canción, una receta, y palabras sabias de J.M. Aznar etc.
Tag: etymology
Convergent etymology: paella / pilau
San Longino, ibero
Una explicación racionalista de la Resurrección y Ascensión de Nuestro Señor.
Flamenco: (manifestación cultural de la) escoria de un país bajo?
Brazo de gitano with flesh-coloured filling
It always seemed wrong that the custard was yolk-hued, so a bottle of cochineal was acquired for Halloween.
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”
And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.
Alectryon, the Ancient Greek model for our cuckold’s horns?
With a field study of the nymphomaniacs of Goa and brief notes on the early history of composite grafts.
