Odd Food Follies From Far Lands And Poachers
A Balkan style vignette blends bizarre eating feats with tragic deaths and exotic contraband. An Austrian farm worker devoured boots for bets and drank himself to death from alcohol poisoning. London warehouses stock curios like orains of Paradise and dragon's blood while rhino horn powder fuels a mythic pick me up for warriors in Africa and Asia amid West African poaching and global ivory trade.
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Archibald Fleming
Arctic
Alois Kratzhuber
Alois
London
St. Ignatius
Africa
Asia
Odd remedies from history spice up a curious dietary tale
A sprawling excerpt links rhino horn trade, Peking Man legends, wartime hunger, and folk cures across eras and regions. It recounts traders selling bone fragments as long life pills, war-time eating of scarce goods, and odd domestic beliefs from chalk to gunpowder cures, ending with practical tips on cooking eggs.
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Korea
Harry L. Shapiro
New York Metropolitan Museum
Pearl Harbour
Peking
Medical College
Tientsin
Shapiro
Paris
Eggs Shell Color Debate Prompts Buyer Choices
A United States Poultry and Egg National Board statement clarifies that shell color ranges from white to brown is a breed trait and does not affect flavor nutrition or cooking. The article then shares molded egg salad recipe using hard boiled eggs and gelatin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Poultry and Eye National Board
Egg salad dressing recipe notes
A list describes ingredients and measures for a simple egg salad dressing. It lists hard cooked eggs, softened butter, lemon juice or vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and salad dressing amounts. The text appears as fragmented cooking notes.
Icebox Element and the Film's Take Home Message
Director King Vidor reflects on the icebox element metaphor for films that provoke thought after viewing. He notes the passion behind making cinema and the director’s powerful voice to shape a film’s heaven or hell for audiences. He cites the high price of better theatres and the need for meaningful cinema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Selznick
Tve
Prom
Vidor
What gave English its fluency and force
The exchange stars Jackson who quips the alarm clock gave English its fluency and force, while hesped offers a playful, off-hand line about his view on language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jixson
Jackson
The Ethic Laugh: Jack Berg and the Mysterious Boxer
Jackie Kid Berg, a famed Whitechapel lightweight, recalls a peculiar sparring match with a timid stranger who later proves to be the same doctor who treated his battered hands. The tale weaves Bergs career highs with a grim joke at the profession's expense.
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Jackie Kid Berg
Whitechapel
London
United States
Jackie
Berg
Ray Arcel
Arcel
Arce
Tony Canzoneri
Ray Aresl
Johnny McHale
Palooka
New Jersey
Medico
Jackie Berg
How To Really Take Weight Off
A humorous guide suggests weighing on different floors and even at the equator, then on Mars to shed pounds. It extols Deimos weight at a quarter pound and imagines space-age tricks like long tennis courts and kicks sending a ball off-planet.
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Mars
Deimos
Space
Unusual Rock Hobby Turns Foodlook Alike Pieces
Mrs Erna Clark collects rocks that resemble food items such as petrified wood like roast beef aragonite resembling cauliflower and a walnut shaped by sandstone. Friends note the edible appearance of these inedible rocks and find the collection curious.
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Erna Clark
Hawker Siddeley Buys Canadian Titanium Plant
Hawker Siddeley Group buys Canadian Steel Improvement Ltd of Etobicoke a titanium forging specialist. The Canadian firm also produces high quality aluminum and steel forgings alongside titanium components for aerospace manufacturing.
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Hawker Siddeley Group
Canadian Steel Improvement Ltd
Etobicoke
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Barbare Lohrman
Jacqueline Johnson
England
Harley Street
Harbord
Gunton Hall
Norfolk
As Dane Andrews
Bill Schilling
Northfield
China Department
Yesteryear
Im Pictures
Toby
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