The Delicious Legacy Podcast

Of course it is!

Charred pot residues reveal prehistoric Europeans' surprisingly complex cuisines Thousands of years ago, European communities used a variety of plant and animal products to create elaborate meals, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Lara González ...

"Each culture had their own complex culinary traditions."

Let's say it again: they were just as smart, as innovative and creative as we are.

#Unlearn ideas of "primitive life"
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Nobody would accept this if it happened in Tel Aviv, or London, or New York. And it would be front-page news in every western newspaper.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

One of those clips where you really have to watch the whole thing, because reading the most egregious quote in the rant doesn’t fully capture how 1) racist, and 2) cognitively impaired the president is.

Four years ago you helped us break through onto Newham Council for the first time ever. We’ve delivered so much together ever since.

Now I need your help again - please donate to our re-election crowdfunder now!

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Politicians seek meeting with Travelodge CEO after Maidenhead sexual assault case Call for urgent meeting comes after woman was assaulted by man who had been given her key card by hotel staff

I travel alone a huge amount. I never stay in Travelodges because they are always dodgy as hell, but whatever hotel I’m in I lock the door at night. I shouldn’t have to. I was followed back to my room a couple of weeks ago, have been propositioned in lifts, etc. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sure, here it is Tim

@donalde.bsky.social will have

What is going on, am i in a parallel universe, that the tories keep winning elections and are the government!?

If your political strategy is to alienate your entire voter base and pave the way for a hard-right government, sure

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you're right, it IS shocking that professional loser Matt Goodwin still has more newsletter subscribers than I do. If you want to help correct this oversight, here's 12% off annual subs (to reflect how much he lost by)

AI will not save us In fact, it's probably going to make our lives much, much worse

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words.

On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape.

www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

Enhanced image of palimpsested page, original writing in red; a large illuminated 'E' can be seen in bottom right quadrant.

Somehow, an 8th-c. English liturgical manuscript ended up in Mount Sinai (where it was palimpsested and written over by a Christian Arabic scribe). For more info: Michelle Brown, austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...

A bronze coin from Roman-era Beneventum, with Apollo's head and the text "Benven-tod" on one side, from the Classical Numismatic Group

In ancient southern Italy, there was a settlement known as something like Malies in the local Oscan language, rendered in Greek as Malioenton.

This became Maleventum to the Romans, but that by accident sounded unlucky (like 'evil-wind'). So, it got renamed Beneventum – today, the city of Benevento.

They continue to test their weapons on us

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If I quietly hated democracy and wanted to corrode other people's love for it I'd post just like Anna here.

When you devalue the power of democracy like this, by extension you devalue its purpose.

It will never stop tickling me, that the Leeds symposium is in York. And they haven't been bothered to change it. For 30 years or something!😆😆😆😆

I’m in this!

Tony Blair rebukes Keir Starmer for not backing Trump on Iran - saying when US needs help 'you better show up'

Trump and Hegseth should be sent to the electric chair for what they’ve done here. Naturally, Tony thinks we should be helping them.

never has the left been so vindicated than in our absolute loathing of this christian whackjob.

I am coming to understand, bone deep, that the strength of a democracy is in the diversity of voices. Radical inclusion makes us smarter and better. The more we expand the franchise, the better things will be for all. It makes the project of self-governance more complex, but more resilient. /2

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Medieval Arab Cuisine with Professor Daniel Newman Pt1 | The Delicious Legacy Echoes of Sassanid Persian cuisine throughout the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond

R.I.P Professor Dan Newman!
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An excellent man, scholar and enthusiastic talented cook of Arab cuisine...!

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@rholmes.bsky.social: I have found Polanski's followers to be just as obnoxious as Farage's condescending and abusive when challenged. Neither offer sensible solutions and just resort to insults. It is a personality cult. @schmarriorchode69.bsky.social: your mum

The 2 types of British poster

Ghana denounces 'war crime' at UN after Israeli strike injures three peacekeepers in southern Lebanon Ghana filed a protest with the United Nations on Saturday, a day after an attack in southern Lebanon that injured its peacekeepers, denouncing it as “a grave violation of international law...

Ghana has accused Israel of committing a war crime by bombing Ghanaian UN troops, injuring three of them.

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