The Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes began populating(居住于) the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries. They spoke a mutually intelligible language-now called Old English. They drove the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants out of what is now England into Scotland, Wales and Ireland, le...
One of Indias best oddball savorysweet pairings and a popular Delhi breakfast (especially in winter) bedmialoo and nagorihalwa are two distinct dishes eaten together. The former is the savory part: a puffy hefty deepfried purilike bread made of wheat flour spices and dal called bedmi which ...
pass away. This is the nature of human life, always hurtling ahead, sometimes at a dizzying pace. Nothing can be totally controlled. Too many unknown factors enter in. So it was in my ministry. I put myself on the edge. I held nothing...
Many times I find that posts on marketmanila seem to trigger fond childhood memories of food or things associated with a particular food. Whenever I mention a backyard fruit, there is a surge of warm, fuzzy comments about lazy days with neighbors or cou
Words from Latin The second important invasion is called the “Viking Invasion”. People from the Scandinavian countries, mainly Denmark, settled down in Britain. These invaders took their language (Danish) to Britain. For 250 years, Danish had merged with Old English. Old English was simplified...
Some years ago I was in the wholesale food distribution and one year, wheat went bonkers due to weather. Then the speculators, smelling an opportunity, stepped in and bought and sold and bought and sold huge lots of wheat, driving the prices even higher. The price for a cwt of wheat ...