The oldest written #hummus recipe in the world is 776 years old...

It was written in Aleppo, Syria in 1250 CE by a historian named Ibn al-'Adeem. Not a chef. A historian. Who also happened to document one of the most extraordinary cookbooks of the medieval period.

The base of the recipe is identical to what you make today. Chickpeas, tahini, lemon, garlic, salt. That part has not changed in 776 years.

@histories_arch #globalmuseum #recipes

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

In order for #Canada to obtain #DigitalSovereignty we need more than just #SocialMedia apps that are outside the control of US companies, we need digital infrastructure.

The Government of Canada should establish 'Canadian Web Services' (CWS) as a crown corporation offering everything AWS currently does but hosted in Canada and protected by solid privacy legislation. This would ensure that Canadian's (and foreigners) who need access to the services AWS offers can get them without putting their data under US jurisdiction.

How far back could you understand your native language (in this case English)?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#Language #Change

The English word ‘kitchen’ has the same origin as French ‘cuisine’: Latin ‘cocīna’.

While the Germanic tribes of the early first millennium were as familiar with cooking as any other culture, they adopted the Roman concept of a separate cooking room.

With it, they adopted the Latin word ‘cocīna’, which after fifteen centuries of Germanic and English sound changes has become ‘kitchen’.

Click my new graphic to learn all about this word family.

Through Romance and Germanic, the Latin ... 1/

You know, when you think about it, practically every symphony orchestra is a cover band, and nobody busts their chops about it.

#coverbands #music #musicsnob