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Tomatoes, along with potatoes, corn, and peppers, are all native to the Americas, so they didn’t exist in Europe before 1492.

The Romans were eating things like olives, lentils, cabbage, and a surprising amount of fish sauce called garum, but no pizza toppings or spaghetti sauce as we know them.

Tomato sauce as we know it in Italy didn’t appear until the early 18th century. Even though tomatoes arrived in southern Europe after Columbus brought them from the Americas in the 16th century, they were initially grown mostly as ornamental plants because some Europeans thought they were poisonous.

It wasn’t until the 1600s and 1700s that people in Naples and other parts of southern Italy began experimenting with cooking tomatoes. By around the 1730s, recipes for a simple tomato-based sauce started appearing in Neapolitan cookbooks, usually combined with olive oil, garlic, and herbs. This eventually evolved into the classic Italian tomato sauces we associate with pasta today.

That was the most compelling TV I’ve seen in ages.

They’re giving Wes Moore a 1 hour puff piece infomercial with Norah O’Donnel feeding him softballs that he doesn’t answer but goes into his stump speech for 2028. She’s so much more aggressive on Meet The Press.

I could man the parapets there.

Englishmen are exempt from food critiques. They haven't been exposed.

That’s the first place I’d look. You might try some COQ10 as well.

I'm not, but I know some who are.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/orthorexia-is-more-and-more-common-here-s-what-you-should-know-about-it/ar-AA1WlnB7

No, that's really it. You may get lucky.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Sure. It's the granddaddy of tech hubs and far larger in terms of talent and capital than any of the others. I don't know that I would call these other cities tech hubs in the same way. I'd like to see charts of longevity. Formation and success are two very different things.

I've watched about the first half hour, up t the point where it's a few years later. I need to get back, as it was interesting and Sean Penn is a slimy delight.

This too will pass. one way or another. Trump, I mean.

The only things we have really learned from the Epstein debacle is that he and his guests did not spend all their time in debauchery and prosecuting them would be damn difficult.

Made this last night, 2/3 of the 1/2 recipe. Only had half a pound of mushrooms so i added green peas. Delicious, and half a cup of rice was more than enough for the two of us. Would easily have fed four as a side dish.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/85389/gourmet-mushroom-risotto/

No matter, he's still the mayor. For now. I don't foresee a second term.

Another good dad. Family traditions are great, but they have to keep changing as the kids' tastes change. You will never regret the time you spent on that, even when they decide in their early teens you are an obsolete, dim-witted dinosaur bent on ruining their lives .

Luckily that period was very brief with us, just 8th grade. Some things transpired then that made her realize we weren't as dumb as she thought.

I applaud your parenting. These next few years are so important to the trajectory of his life. Well worth the investment.

He's grown up with TNCR in the background.

Modern communications rock.

He's 16, right? So you are starting college visits early, which I think is a great idea. We took Lauren when she was a sophomore. Hearing about the financial realities and how she could get lots of aid for good grades really pumped up her already good performance. I think it also helped her to see that this wasn't some far-off thing - it was real and it was closer than she thought - that's the connection we wanted. Plus she was already in a theater prep program at CCM, the UC conservatory.

A Jancis Robinson piece, with which I agree with most everything.

There is a neighborhood breakfast and lunch place with very good food and service. They've started serving dinner Th-Sun, with a full bar. Unfortunately their wine list was clearly chosen by a distributor trying to move some slow-moving product. I ordered a higher end Pinot Noir the other night and it had obviously been opened the prior weekend and was oxidized. They took a bath on that bottle as I sent the glass back.

I'm going to speak with the owner about revamping his wine list, free of charge. If I can get his wines down from $12-$16 by the glass to between $7 and $10 tops, he will sell more wine, attract more wine drinkers and lose a lot less money on bottles gone bad. I think he'll make more money. Wine people like to go where the wine is well chosen and inexpensive. Who knows, it could become a sideline for me.

https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wine-needs-new-social-contract