One I always heard was of Italian rank-and-file "cowardice." Quote marks because it is hard to fault a soldier for not being enthusiastic about helping Il Duce and Hitler in their aims. But my dad told of Italian soldiers quickly surrendering any time they were encountered. He said a single GI...
I've actually been experimenting with this for a few months, with cucumbers, radishes, onions, etc. As mentioned above, 1/2 (cider) vinegar, half water is a good mix. I get it to the boil with the spices (some combination of dill seed, dill weed, coriander seed, mustard seed, a few cloves of...
I liked that in the movie Crimson Peak, which is set around 1900, a couple of the characters appear in clothing several decades out of style, even though they were young. It let us know they weren't as prosperous as they made out to be, and that they lived in at least partial isolation.
This is...
And we rather tire of being CC'd on all the whining emails this guy sends out.
Our own experience is such that we would not order a key fob if it came with a free night with Monica Bellucci and Nigella Lawson with background music by Paul Whiteman and a free custom suit from Matt Deckard.
That's a fantastic story to relate! I've said (and written-- I have a weekly foodie column in four newspapers) that the skills it must take to cook under the conditions pre-1940 or so are unfathomable. Grandma HAD to really know what she was doing. No setting the burner to "medium," you had to...
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