Yep! The PA Dutch were huge saffron producers in the 18th century, until saffron fell out of fashion in the US and western Europe and the market dried up. A lot of PA Dutch food traditionally uses saffron, though you don't usually see it in restaurant versions because of the cost.
this is amazing, thank you! I love learning bits of history like this. I wonder if there's any PA Dutch cookbooks including it? I'd love to try some of their recipes
The default internet view of all foreign policy whether on the left or the right is a Realist-Materialist synthesis which allows people to feel cynically savvy while also being hopelessly wrong in almost every case
I think there’s a decision matrix here where you have a threshold for inputs and those inputs break down along economic, demographic, ideological, political, and psychosocial lines.
The USA has been blocking Iran from selling its oil
I guess one could construct a story that Texas shale drillers want higher oil prices
But "it's about oil" people almost never do
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no they just suck
And shit, zoomers are 20 somethings now, aren't they?
I guess one could construct a story that Texas shale drillers want higher oil prices
But "it's about oil" people almost never do