Russ Emerson | March 19, 2005
Well, this BBC item is cool: South Korea’s spicy fermented cabbage dish, kimchi, could help to cure bird flu, according to researchers. Scientists at Seoul National University say they fed an extract of kimchi to 13 infected chickens – and a week later 11 of them had started recovering. Kimchi is a preparation of pickled […]
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Russ Emerson | March 17, 2005
Is there enough green on this page? Being Dutch on my Mom’s side, I grew up with the notion that we were supposed to wear orange instead of green on Saint Patrick’s Day. Perhaps that’s a by-product of the intense anti-Catholicism of the Dutch Calvinist camp. That sort of attitude is understandable, given the anti-Reformation […]
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