Older, wiser cultures than ours revered her. She sets the timetables for planting food, wine, controls our tides and wreaks havoc on our emergency rooms when she is full, or so they say. The word Moon comes from the Latin mensis, the same root word for a woman's cycle, although in Latin people call her Luna.
Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Aristarchus and Shi Shen studied her patterns, and Galileo Galilei first drew her craters and mountain ranges. The Mayans, the Aztects, the Incas, the ancient Egyptians and the Hindus, the Romans and the Greeks, all revered her.
At 7:31 am Eastern time today, we bombed the moon. I know that this is being billed as a scientific necessity, but I can't help but think that if other civilizations exist out there in the universe, anything they write about our eventual demise as humans on earth will most likely being with the sentence, "In October 2009, they led an expedition to bomb the moon at 5,600 miles per hour. Twice."
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I fear you've been driven mad by eating "4 tablespoons each of curry powder, turmeric, garam masala, cumin, and coriander, and 1 tablespoon cinnamon" on 4 chicken thighs.
Just kidding! I came across your blog today while scoping out Diana Kennedy carnitas links, and I'm fascinated by your recipes and enjoying your often whimsical prose. I'll be trying those chicken thighs soon, wish me luck!
Thanks for your comment Douglas! I may need to tweak that recipe for less spice-centric palates - and to avoid driving unsuspecting readers completely insane too :-)
I hope you enjoy this site and especially hope you loved the Diana Kennedy carnitas as much as we did - they were everything I dreamed and more!
Thank you for stopping by!
Very interesting points!!!
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