Indians Coming!
06/02/2011
Mardi Gras morning won’t be long! Axé.
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Uova al pomodoro
04/02/2011
Eggs poached in tomatoes in the Mediterranean style, are one of the most refreshing and sustaining dishes one can eat. So much winter food takes a long time to cook, but you can make this in a flash. Here are the true recipes. What I do, though, is wait until I have leftover marinara sauce. … More Uova al pomodoro
Radishes, Tea and Leeks
02/02/2011
It is cold, cold, and I dislike it because there are no truly functional heating systems here. The pipes froze and we were without water, and now there will be ice. I would prefer it were snow. In this state I am not fully functional, yet I seem to have cooked well. Although I hardly … More Radishes, Tea and Leeks
Naomi Klein
29/01/2011
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Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal
22/01/2011
The President of the Modern Language Association wrote a good letter on the situation of foreign languages in general and at SUNY-Albany in particular. It is on pp. 4-5 of the Winter 2010 MLA Newsletter, and it has a bibliography including Catherine Porter’s “Presidential Address: English Is Not Enough” (PMLA 125.3 [2010]: 546-55), which I … More Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal
Perlas de J. M. Aznar
16/01/2011
This was made in 2007 so it is just a little old, but it is very funny. Axé.
Gregory Petsko
28/11/2010
He is excellent. Read his open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany. • The best way for people to be prepared for the inevitable shock of change is to be as broadly educated as possible, because today’s backwater is often tomorrow’s hot field. And interdisciplinary research, … More Gregory Petsko
In Catholic Culture
26/11/2010
Student: Do the Christs in Brazilian churches sport as much blood as the Christs in Mexican churches? Professor Zero: Yes. Student: That is amazing. Professor Zero: Why? Italian Christs have a great deal of blood as well. Bloodiness is a major characteristic of the Mediterranean and Mediterranean based Christ. Student: How marvelous! Professor Zero: It … More In Catholic Culture
Definitivamente
07/11/2010
It was a refusal of ventriloquism. One could say it was Didion’s “failure of nerves.” It also coincided, alas, with Reeducation’s distortions, Reeducation’s idea that nerves should fail. But far more fundamentally it was a refusal of ventriloquism. My attempt to interpret it as a “failure of nerves” in the sense of that senseless Reeducated … More Definitivamente
Neiges d’antan
07/11/2010
It is brilliantly sunny here, and cool and beautiful. The telephone rang, which it almost never does now since we e-mail and leave messages on cellular telephones. I was instantly transported to the twentieth century and indeed, it was a twentieth century person calling me — my yard man. He was at the plant store … More Neiges d’antan
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