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Eating Like an Explorer Once Called for Plenty of ‘Portable Soup’

Eating Like an Explorer Once Called for Plenty of ‘Portable Soup’

Want to see fewer ads? .A map of the route taken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804-1806 expedition and an antique illustration of soup preparation from Le livre de cuisine (Paris, 1874).Navy captain James Cook set sail aboard the HMS Endeavour on August 26, 1768, for an expedition around the Pacific, he brought along 18 months of provisions. These included pigs, poultry, a goat for milking, and a large supply of portable soup.Also known as “pocket soup” or “veal glue,” the latter became a breakfast staple—often reboiled with celery and oatmeal, or mixed with hot water and...

August 10, 2022
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How Boise, Idaho, Became a Sanctuary for Refugees and Their Cuisine

How Boise, Idaho, Became a Sanctuary for Refugees and Their Cuisine

Aseel and Salam Bunyan, Iraqi refugees and Boise business owners, inside their Mediterranean restaurant, Tarbush Kitchen.In This Storywife, Aseel, opened their Mediterranean restaurant, Tarbush Kitchen, in Boise’s Central Bench neighborhood in late 2019, the Iraqi couple already had a loyal customer base. That’s because the Bunyans, who arrived in Idaho as refugees 11 years earlier, had been in the food business before: First in 2014, as purveyors of The Goodness Land food stall at the city’s International Market. Then, after the market burned down, as the owners and operators of a...

March 12, 2021
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When the Jersey Shore Was the Epicenter for Haunted Attractions

When the Jersey Shore Was the Epicenter for Haunted Attractions

Want to see fewer ads? .Dracula's Castle, on an amusement pier in Wildwood, New Jersey.In This StoryNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or New York during summer in the early 1980s, and you were likely to catch featuring a creepy mime trapped behind an invisible wall, the shadowy figure of a hunchback rounding the corner of a darkened staircase, and a headless woman swatting away the attentions of a handsy mad scientist. The organ sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor played hauntingly in the background, while an amorphously accented voice described a series of...

March 5, 2021
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