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This Thanksgiving … Just Stuff It
One of the most beloved dishes at the Thanksgiving table is the stuffing. A mix of seasoned vegetables and starches that is traditionally cooked within the cavity of the turkey, stuffing can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Today, however, it is most widely associated with Thanksgiving. Although a basic stuffing is made from bread [...]
Full StoryThe World’s Oldest Beverage
Believe it or not, beer is almost as old as civilization itself, and can be traced to the earliest Sumerian writings in Sumer, an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC. The oldest proven records of brewing are [...]
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