In ancient times, one thinks of the famous colony of Sybaris which gave rise to the adjective ‘sybaritic’ and rewarded the authors of new dishes every year; or of the court of Persia which, if we are to believe Xenophon, sent emissaries in search of ‘pleasant things to eat and drink...
Martins notes that “The bee is a superorganism. It’s about numbers, you don’t think about the individual bee you think about the colony, the collective.” They are alsoaltruistic, everything they do is for the good of the whole. A queen can choose whether to fertilize an egg. If ...
At the left is 14 year-old "Jane," as reconstructed by experts investigating cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in America. It's likely that Jane's flesh was eaten, after her death, by settlers in Virginia struggling through a period of virtual starvation, 1609-1610...
Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain’s First Colony (State University of New York Press 2021)...
We compared habitat characteristics of flicker foraging locations to randomly selected locations in their home range using discriminant function analysis. Foraging plots were located in grassland and were characterized by a lack of tall vegetation, a large percentage of bare ground, and a high density...
At the left is 14 year-old "Jane," as reconstructed by experts investigating cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in America. It's likely that Jane's flesh was eaten, after her death, by settlers in Virginia struggling through a period of virtual starvation, 1609-1610...
-Elizabeth Luard, the Old World Kitchen (New York 1987) 166“It had to happen, the return to cooking. People don’t just throw away an entire food culture after centuries.”-Darina Allen, quoted in Julia Moskin, “Teaching the Irish (and Others) to LoveIrish Food,” The New York ...
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New York City began as a Dutch colony, and its foodways in the 17th century reflected this origin. Modifications in Dutch-American utilization of European domestic plants and animals were similar to changes in neighboring British colonies, but artifacts, specifically ceramics, remained recognizably ...
has tried and failed to help the other rats in his colony to develop and refine their palates, so it’s kind of a mixed blessing when a calamity causes him to be separated from them and end up above the kitchen at his idol’s restaurant. there, he meets garbage boy alfredo ( lou ...