El Norte Recuerda
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Just remember: Not a single European, much less any Italian, had eaten a tomato until the 16th century.
Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
Just remember: Not a single European, much less any Italian, had eaten a tomato until the 16th century.
Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, Mohammad Abu Selmia: ⭕ All medical supplies, food, and fuel in the Gaza Strip have completely run out, and hospitals have shut down. ⭕ We feel deeply abandoned by the entire world, especially by the Arab and Islamic nations. ⭕…
500 words takes 40 minutes if you do the reading and you care even just a tiny bit
Teenagers in the 2010's writing an essay without Chat GPT
Another matching campaign has gone up! This one sponsored by dear @Dr_mauraf and our friends at zines for falastin and an additional anonymous donor. If we can get this matched today we’ll be able to send in another $5K to @sameerproject
1/ Friends! Here’s another matching donation campaign, this time up to $2500 - All proceeds will be sent to the @sameerproject South Campaign, which is now operating in emergency mode, purchasing whatever provisions they can source. …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-p…
We’re at Stage 5 of Malnutrition in Gaza. This is irreversible. I can’t believe I’m writing these words.
Superman is a socialist - Vox apple.news/AeMvG704SR4CKx…
"I am no longer interested in writing about migration from a moral or political stance or trying to convince anyone of the humanity of migrants. Migration is a biological fact, central to the evolution of our species, no more and no less."
I wrote about the email I received from my child’s school aftercare warning us about ICE activity in our area, and my concern for how this kind of state violence wounds our children’s imagination. For Harper’s Bazaar: harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…
"Every story we tell ourselves, and retell to our children, is part of a collective world-building project; we choose to imagine the same world every day, reproduce made-up borders, identities, hierarchies, debts."
I wrote about the email I received from my child’s school aftercare warning us about ICE activity in our area, and my concern for how this kind of state violence wounds our children’s imagination. For Harper’s Bazaar: harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…