I am not a native of Yuanjia Village. My grandfather and my father made tofu for years and I inherited this skill. In 2008 I came to this village because I heard that it provided free houses for food businesses. From that time I began to make tofu in this village. At first, I rece...
Thousands of years ago, aloe and frankincense have been the most famous plant products in the global trade from southern Yemen, Socotra and Oman [15], followed by gums, dyes and myrrh, as well as the use of tree wood in the construction of doors, windows and roofs of houses and palaces...
In the North American Northwest (extending through British Columbia and even southern Alaska) rectangular plank houses were built by native Americans using redwood, cedar, and further north, spruce. Using planks up to 4" thick, some of these homes were secured by ropes so that they could be ...
Uja and his co-founders of Odigbo agreed on the rotation of the Ruling Houses among five families at Odigbo. The pact remained unchanged up till today. Uja regarded himself as a King. Oranmiyan himself ordained him at Ile-Ife. Uja took a long time to settle down. He got married ...
Their names recall the taste of Mediterranean cuisines; but this taste is the result of combining ingredients and spices that did not exist until they reached, at a given moment in history, the big larder of the Mediterranean and became part of its long history of adaptation (Abdelkader, 1998...
Based on participatory research tools and analysis with a gender focus, we aim to identify the knowledge associated with native plants of the Atlantic Forest in one Quilombola community whose territory is juxtaposed with a protected area, in South Brazil. Methods Through the perception of the reside...
If the remains of dead things are houses for the long-gone, keeping house is very important. Bones treated irreverently can cause all sorts of spiritual havoc. In Roger Pinckney’s Blue Roots, he mentions how African burial practices involved two funerals: one right after the death, and one...
Mike Comptonis a Grammy Award-winning, IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year nominee, mandolinist for the Nashville Bluegrass Band and longtime steady sideman to the late John Hartford. He has entertainedfrom Carnegie Hall to the White House — and lots of good folks’ houses in between. The New...
Plants having appeared not very long time ago in European folk phytotherapy constitute not the only but a good example of such additions that prospects as the present one can bring to the ethnoflora. Although when first contacting the informants we indicate that we are interested in orally-...
(9.3%) fall into this category. The damp conditions in local homes, leading to high mold counts, as well as insufficient air circulation account for the prevalence of these conditions. Many houses in rural areas still have open stoves, with smoke causing constant irritation to the pulmonary ...