Molasses of Figs
from Notes on Language
From a bottle of Italian fig molasses:
An ancient specialyty of Calabrese tradition, but new and exclusive on the market, find its better utilize in confictionery, in particular lik substitutive of the bee honey, on the fruit-salad, with fresh pine-apple and maraschino, up the greated-ice drink, like sauce up the beffsteak, and irons cooking fruit, for sweet of simple dough, on the cocktail, up and other use suggested of the immagination and of the taste.
March 12, 2002
elsewhere:
- "Will Islam Come Into the 21st Century?"
- Coverage of a session on the future of Islam held at the Council for Secular Humanism's conference in Washington, D.C. The panel for the session comprised 5 ex-Muslims and an Armenian-Iranian Christian who said, "This is war. I'm coming to you from a war zone."
- The Vanishing Act
- Two of the web's great assets, Kevin Fanning and Joshua Allen, collaborate on a beautiful little photo story about a disappearing girl.
- America’s 50 Best Magazines
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- 2 Poems by Valerie Duff
- An old friend of mine doing good work: Valerie Duff, whom I met in the poetry program at B.U., continues to write gorgeous, elusive poems that deserve more readers and attention than they get.
- Failed Magazine May Be Revived
- Rats. The Oxford American, shortly after making a lot of hullabaloo about its rescusitation, is out of breath again.
- Reetika Vazirani found dead
- Poet Reetika Vazirani, who was a friend of a friend and a minor legend in poetry circles when I was in poetry school, was found dead. Poems and a bio of Vazirani