Wolmania - Friday, December 10, 2021
Good morning and happy Friday.
Item 1: a link
Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice
Great piece by Aatish Taseer for the New York Times Magazine as part of their Winter Travel issue.
"Having arrived in the country via the Spanish Conquest, the grain’s presence poses the question: What’s native, and what isn’t, when it comes to a nation’s culinary history?" [learned a new word - “lacustrine” - ed]
Item 2: a list
Legumes, ranked
- Peanuts
- Beans (black, pinto, Rancho Gordo, etc.)
- Soybeans
- Chickpeas
- Green beans
- Lentils
- Green peas
Item 3: a media recommendation
Item 4: a photograph
“The Newport Transporter bridge crosses the River Usk in Newport, South East Wales and is essentially a suspended ferry. For a number of years, Itay waited for foggy conditions to surround the bridge, and in January 2021, that day finally came. Itay initially used his drone to track the movement of the fog before then setting up his camera to capture his image once the fog had thickened.
See ya!
I hope you had a good time reading this newsletter. See you next week!
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