balzaccom
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Post by balzaccom on Nov 16, 2020 21:56:30 GMT -8
Good luck. It's got to be better than Retsina. Retsina is a wine made the same way as other white wines but with some pine resin added during fermentation. (around 12% alcohol content) And based on a recipe that is literally thousands of years old. If you want to know what the wine that Hector and Achilles drank during the Trojan War, or Christ drank at the Last Summer, retsina is probably as close as you are going to get.
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Post by BigLoad on Nov 16, 2020 22:00:39 GMT -8
If you want to know what the wine that Hector and Achilles drank during the Trojan War, or Christ drank at the Last Summer, retsina is probably as close as you are going to get. No wonder ancient times were so violent.
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Post by franco on Nov 16, 2020 22:48:07 GMT -8
I think that there is retsina and ...there is retsina. Like any wine they are not all the same. I had retsina on a few warm but not hot evenings in Athens . The outdoor eating thing. There it tasted very nice but I don't know if it was particularly good retsina (we drank what the locals were drinking, just a few weeks before the tourist season started) or because it does not travel well so it may taste not the same in another country. For example having had a good time drinking Bintang beer in Bali I bought some back here in Melbourne (imported from Bali not localy made) it tasted pretty bad. My father was a tourist coach driver. Went all over Europe. I remember times when he had a bottle of wine that he particularly liked from his trip , only to find that it did not taste at all the same back home.
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Post by franco on Nov 17, 2020 14:25:55 GMT -8
BTW, talking about processing a product to make it edible or stuff like that, I am reading about coffee in Yemen. There is where someone thought of drying the seeds of the coffee plant, toasting it so that a brew could be made. Yemen is the part that the Romans called Arabia Felix (happy Arabia) In Ethiopia , the other country that claims to have discovered coffee , at the time a tea like brew was made because they did not toast the seeds first. The otjher thing that I learned is that the fruit of the coffee tree is edible. looks like this
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Post by franco on Nov 29, 2020 19:01:10 GMT -8
Something that came to mind about discovering stuff was that at some point in history a man discovered he could milk a cow. now, how exactly did he explain to his mother what he was doing ?
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balzaccom
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Post by balzaccom on Nov 29, 2020 21:07:13 GMT -8
Chances are, his mother understood something about lactation.
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Post by reuben on Nov 30, 2020 5:28:08 GMT -8
how exactly did he explain to his mother what he was doing ? How exactly did he explain to the cow what he was doing?
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Dec 1, 2020 6:03:20 GMT -8
For us, the mast year was last year. There have been so many rodents this year, feeding on the bounty. Especially chipmunks. I've caught 9 mice in the past few weeks, when I typically catch around 2 per year. I told my wife a free-roaming snake would solve our mouse problem, but she objected.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 1, 2020 8:00:46 GMT -8
I told my wife a free-roaming snake would solve our mouse problem, but she objected. I’ve thought about that, but I need a BIG snake in the attic, because those are rats up there.
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Post by echo on Dec 1, 2020 8:38:18 GMT -8
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