Tag Archives: History
A Brief History of Thanksgiving
So I was reading about the exact origins of our American Thanksgiving holiday, as I’m wont to do on a Tuesday afternoon while waiting to get my teeth cleaned, and found myself wholly enlightened. As much as we mythologize the … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, food, Food & Wine, Food and Wine, History, History of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving
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What’s that saying about history, doom and repeating?
No food & wine post again this week. If you want to read something about wine, you can check out my latest over at The Huffington Post. My senior year in college I took a history class called “Germany in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, Democracy, Egypt, Germany, History, Libya, Tunisia
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Food & Wine Thusdays: Perception and a Haphazard History of American Wine
California came into its position as America’s top wine-producing state largely by accident and luck. A tiny little aphid called phylloxera is native to the United States and, until the late 1800’s, was native only to the eastern half of … Continue reading
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Tagged drinking, Food & Wine, History, Tool, Wine
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