Month: October 2023
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Grape Cider
One of the fascinating aspects about fermentation is how it transforms food. For certain food such as wine and cider, their flavors after fermentation represent even more of their essence than before. While grape juice tastes generically fruity, wine pushes floral and fruity aromas directly at the nose, exudes honey and caramel notes, and recalls…
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Candied & Brandied
Among the most popular methods to preserve fruits is candied, which is to cook them in sugar. Cooked fruits loosen their natural juice into the sugar to become syrupy and release their own pectin to thicken it. Fruit preserves are typically organized into jam, jelly, and marmalade. Jam is fruit bits and sugar stewed into…
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Learn A Language
In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, learning French helped transform Lula Mae, a farm girl from rural Texas, into Holly Golightly, a New York café society girl. It’s a tall order, but I can verify that learning French improves English pronunciation, as it certainly did for me. Not only for the accent however, it also advanced my…
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Culturally Verbal
It is well accepted that the environment influences culture and language. We develop words for objects, build habits and beliefs based on the phenomena observed around us. The brain learns and forms its understanding of the world upon this information. Speech and language are so interwoven into our mind that it feels impossible to separate…
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