Archives For November 30, 1999
For some Americans, a trip to the ballpark isn’t complete without the bright-yellow squiggle of French’s mustard atop a hot dog. For the French, the slow burn of Dijon is a must-have complement to charcuterie. In the United Kingdom, Sunday’s roast beef is nothing without the punch of Colman’s. Yet few realize that this condiment has been equally essential—maybe more so—for the past 6,000 years. In fact, the first spice that we know prehistoric humans used to pep up their dinners is none other than mustard. But why is the sale of mustard oil for consumption banned in the United States, Europe, and Canada, despite the fact it’s used by millions of people around the world nearly every day? Listen in now for the answer to that mustard mystery and dozens more, including how mustard got its heat, and why we have caterpillars to thank for its particular taste profile.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/mustard/554567/
According to a city law which says you cannot “Use, maintain, possess, fire, or discharge any firearm.”
“There’s no firing guns in a park, but there’s exceptions for each one of the ordinances,” which he adds the exceptions have been made in the past and can’t understand why no now.
“They actually asked us if we can use wooden sticks, and can you see 12 men in full regalia and another 12 charging with wooden sticks saying ‘Bang bang!’ It just doesn’t have the same effect,” he said.
Soldiers who perform the reenactment say the simulated gunfire is a crucial element to the historical accuracy and in all the years they’ve been performing the battles, no other city has ever denied them a permit to perform.
“History is important and we’re losing it,” he said.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/02/19/gun-laws-civil-war-reenactment/comment-page-3/#comments
In 1278 the King of England came up with a new plan to raise money and land, as leaders are fond of doing. Certain that historic privileges had been usurped by uppity subjects, King Edward sent royal officers around to prominent individuals demanding by what legal right – quo warranto – they held their honours. However when Edward’s men arrived at the home of one John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, the ageing aristocrat pulled out his rusty sword and proclaimed: “My ancestors came with William the Bastard, and conquered their lands with the sword, and I will defend them with the sword against anyone wishing to seize them.”
Ce texte est paru initialement dans le numéro décembre 2017/janvier 2018 de la revue À Bâbord. Nous le reproduisons avec la permission de la revue et de l’auteur.
La création acadienne semble revendiquer une place de plus en plus importante : réussite d’une survivance ou nécessité de vivre?
Je suis acadien. Mon nom de famille est Robichaud. L’un des originaux, m’a-t-on appris, dit, et redit. Je suis acadien du plus loin que je me souvienne. Un acadien né à Moncton, au Nouveau-Brunswick, en 1990. Ça m’a toujours été présenté comme quelque chose d’important, alors rapidement j’y ai cru, et plus je vieillis, plus je comprends que ça l’est. Je ne serais rien de qui ou de ce que je suis si je n’étais pas Acadien.
L’Acadie, c’est un paradoxe profond, une dose d’improbable et d’impossible, une irrévérence batailleuse, goguenarde, railleuse, ratoureuse qui s’affranchit plus souvent par en dessous que…
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