Article in the NY Times.
Aaargh.
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I made kedgeree today. I’m intrigued by Anglo-Indian food like kedgeree and mulligatawny soup. Even more so, those things like Worcester sauce and brown sauce which are so deeply imbedded into the British consciousness that no-one even thinks of them as Indian any more.
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birds as clever as mammals
The assumption that birds have more primitive cognitive abilities than mammals is a mistake, according to the Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium.
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roast chicken with cinnamon and allspice
Rub a chicken with 2 tbsp of olive oil, 1 tsp of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp of ground allspice, salt and pepper. Roast it.
Recipe from the excellent Tamarind and Saffron, a Middle Eastern cookery book by Claudia Roden. I thought it might be too overpoweringly spicy, or a bit puddingy (because those spices are traditionally used in sweet food in this country), but it was nice.
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more foxes and ID
I was really annoyed by an article in the paper on the campaign to get ‘Intelligent Design’ taught in schools as an alternative to natural selection. Hence the ditty in the last post.
But I would like to come up with a more substantial poem on the subject.
apes/angels.
The angels are winning in Kansas.
scared of the inner ape
Oh nothing could be finer
than to be in Carolina
where everyone’s the work
of an intelligent designer
apesouls
appendices/lower back pain yadda yadda yadda.
QUOTATION:A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits. ATTRIBUTION:Charles Darwin (1809
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Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design
He designed us an appendix
‘cos he knew it would delight us
to have the opportunity
to get appendicitis.