‘Queen of the Deuce’ Review: A Mother of Invention
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Food historian claims tomato sauce on pizza is an American invention, outraging Italians: ‘Blasphemous’
Italian pie-hards wanted a pizza him. Food historian Alberto Grandi had the nation’s pie makers up in arms after controversially claiming that the US — and not The Boot — is responsible for “pizza rossa:” the red tomato sauce that tops pizza. The culinary expert dropped these “blasphemous” gastronomic theories in his and fellow academic … Read more
The Invention of a Desert Tongue for ‘Dune’
Herbert intended these linguistic resonances to communicate the connections between our world and the world of his novels — which is our world some 20,000 years in the future. “If you want to give the reader the solid impression that he is not here and now, but that something of here and now has been … Read more
The Rings of Power’s two trees are a major invention for the Lord of the Rings canon
Despite its status as a prequel, Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power still has plenty to teach us about the history of Middle-earth, or at least its version of that history. While the show’s latest episode covers many different bases, perhaps its most interesting has to do with the history of … Read more