Hmm, it doesn’t explicitly say summer (versus winter) savory but since winter savory is a winter-growing Mediterranean herb, whatever they would have had here was summer savory.

I’m finding recipes for herbes salées with sariette. Where’s Jehane Benoit when we need her?

She looks like his mother, there to get him out of trouble with the principal.

It’s quite big in Quebec too, as a traditional stuffing herb. I know it among English speakers but it may be Quebecois too. The people who use it are of Irish descent — that would likely be true in Newfoundland also.

The Poyntz family? I have a copy of Holbein’s drawing of John (I think) Poyntz in my dining room. Would enjoy knowing more about him.

Me neither! I loved that show.

They want Putin to be the last one Trump listens to before his Zelenskyy meeting. Witkoff works for Russia. I wonder what Putin has promised him?

I hate, when I’m doing that, reaching a place where it says, “ Fill in details and write clever tie-in here.”

Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising. The BBC multi-part radio play of it is excellent too.

They’re all over! In every city. O’Tacos is one big chain that sells them, but there are others.

This is why. I think many of us there appreciate those discussions but…some don’t. And it’s an unfair burden to say” have this discussion that cuts into the core of who you are and your place in the world, but don’t ever get angry or express yourself passionately.”

I miss both of you.

I saw it for the first time right after my first visit to Vienna. It put so many things into context.

1% is an enormous number, given the number of births.

Lizza also talks about Nuzzi going even deeper into ethics violations by doing catch-and-kill on stories about RFK and writing campaign strategy memos

This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it

Okay, I've fleshed out this initial timeline w/ bibliographical citations & a few more pertinent details on how & when our current knowledge about the 12thC medic Trota of Salerno was recovered. You can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/emm... #histmed #MedievalSky