Monday Cup Of Links #18 - Acorn Brownies, Medieval English Audiobooks, Rust Belt Decay
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Happy Monday!
I spent the last week down with a cold, and my paranoid mind kept wondering if it was nCoronavirus. Thankfully not, and I’m better now. There’s been four people in the Bay area diagnosed with it, and they are bracing for more. Hopefully there won’t be any more.
Onto our links!
There’s this pop-up restaurant in Berkeley, Cafe Ohlone, which serves traditional food of the East Bay. Dishes include quail eggs, acorn brownies, dandelion soup, bay laurel duck breast, and rose hip tea. Here’s the founders talking about their cafe.
There’s a new app where you can listen to The Canterbury Tales in medieval English. And there’s even subtitles in regular English so you can follow along. Link to the web app.
ICYMI: My Thursday post going through my process of converting research about India House into a novel. I’m going to have more such posts as I plot and write this novel.
The story of the decline of Youngstown, OH. How a once-thriving city that was blessed geographically and with a thriving steel industry declined over the decades, owing to disinvestment and the Mafia. Credit: Alex.
GIF of the week: I’m really into cooking cinemagraphs now, so here’s some penne rigate in boiling tomato sauce.