We can trace nearly all of human history through grain. I know this, and have discussed it at length, because I am currently isolated with a young baker who was supposed to be headed to Paris next week to attend Boulangerie School. Yesterday, she turned some old dried cranberries and an unused bag of prunes [...]
Owing to its state slogan "land of 10,000 lakes", I never thought of Minneapolis as a river city. It always seemed like a lake kind of town. But, born, as it was, on both banks of the Mississippi, a river city it is, and I love the history of American river cities, possibly because I [...]
I must say it’s a nice view from the top of the food chain. Instead of searching the forest for a patch of grass to gnaw on, we kings of the animal kingdom can prepare our food, and we get to enjoy it. Name one other animal in the world who gets to enjoy its [...]
*note from the author: after weeks of studying and baking various historically breads for a World History project, I have been talking nonstop about bread and its evolution. Because I was unable to get through one conversation without mentioning bread, my mom kindly suggested I funnel this knowledge into a blog (this was likely after [...]
George Vernon Hudson first proposed daylight savings time to give more morning daylight to the winter months and more evening daylight to the summer months. His reasons have been shrouded in mystery for several years, until now. I have learned the exciting truth about this odd practice: Georgie boy was throwing me an extra hour [...]