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Pruned on a development boom in Mecca: ‘Not surprisingly, some feel that “Mecca is becoming like Las Vegas.”’

via A&LD: “The problem isn’t that academics “can’t write,” as is often claimed, but that we are typically engaged in what scholars of the Renaissance know as coterie writing.” one person’s experience of writing for the non-specialist market.

via things magazine: ‘An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century’ Includes ‘A Dish Praised in Springtime for Those with Fulness and Those with Burning Blood’ and ‘The Making of Marrow Without Marrow, Which No One Will Suspect’