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I love food and words and I hang out on social media under the moniker The Rambling Epicure. Kentucky, France, Switzerland, Italy.
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The Italian government spokesman informed Mr. Trump that Italy was not United States territory and was still a sovereign country.

No regulations, just AI running the country. It's gonna be like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future. “A wholesale removal of regulations.'" (The Guardian)

Make sure all your vaccines are up-to-date while they're still available!

This is gonna be fun, a country run by AI. It is a Brave New World with no regulations, sort of like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who would have ever thought the U.S. would imitate Russia?

Who will sign our Social Security checks if all federal employees end up getting fired? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's time to use the "d" word: Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to Treasury Department’s payments system, giving the administration mechanism to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

This is my State Representative who sent a Christmas card with a photo of his whole family holding AR15s so this isn't surprising.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. -- George Orwell, 1984

The cancer of Trumpism continues to spread to our most cherished institutions

History is repeating itself.

The disrupter destructor wants to defund NPR and PBS www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

How long will it be before he imposes tariffs on EU products? Goodbye, French perfume and Italian pasta!

Hey Don, isn't this supposed to be the Golden Age?

A French gynecologist has been barred from practicing for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women." www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Trump budget nominee Russell Vought tells senators: “I believe that the 2020 election was rigged.” thehill.com/homenews/sen...

They are giving away eggs for free at the supermarket today. There's a golden egg in every carton. The New Golden Age has definitely begun.

On Day 2, he rose and rescinded the act lowering the price of prescription drugs, which means the price of medicine will probably now have no limits. What a kind, generous man he is.

Maybe if we look really, really hard, we will see a few stars. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.

Democracy Dies in Darkness. “The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells

I don't need glamor because the earth is like a child that knows poems by heart and living in these Tuscan hills is like living in the middle of a long, never-ending poem.--Nod to Rilke.

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." --Nineteen Eighty-Four

Robert F Kennedy Jnr accused of selling out after promising to fight obesity then munching a burger on president-elect’s plane

A brief, enlightening history of how we are taught to eat, from Ancient Greece to now. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An account from the American colonies in 1672 mentions the ways that both Native Americans and European settlers used cranberries, "boyling them with sugar for a sauce to eat with their meat." www.foodandwine.com/holidays-eve...

"Native to South America, this scentless species of amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus), distinctive for its tentacle-like inflorescences, is prized for the nutty-tasting, protein-rich seeds that develop from its flowers." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/t...

Sunsets back home were once beautiful, but sunset on America is not looking good.

#FoodArt

A really great recent episode on the @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social with the fantastic @jamesreadwrites.bsky.social talking about fermentation. Very interesting indeed. We need to get back on the kimchi-making at my place I think. open.spotify.com/episode/3jNu...