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Savoring the past: Ivan days collection of culinary antiques.
If the past is indeed a foreign country where they do things differently, then the historian may be regarded as a kind of tourist. Just as the food of a different country can make us vividly aware of its strangeness, so its cuisine--not just what was eaten, but how it was prepared and served--provides a powerful impression of just how much the past differs from the present. Cooking, one of the most ephemeral of arts, leaves so few traces that historians have only recently begun to investigate it seriously. Some analyze the earliest cook-book for clues about the kinds of foods that were eaten and when certain tastes and techniques entered a cuisine, while those with an ...
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...pairs of these crosswords, recording omitted letters for the larger puzzle and for...occasions when the two puzzles together omitted only one letter (F3, J16, Q18, V1...the biggest number of different letters omitted from the larger puzzle was eight, and...
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- Omitted variables, intent, and counterfactuals: a response to Michael H. Nelson.
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- Fruit or vegetable?(list of questions with omitted illustrations)
- Magazine article from: Weekly Reader, Edition Pre-K (including Science Spin) April 1, 2003 700+ words
...vegetables that grow near the ground. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apples are fruits that grow on trees. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bananas are fruits that grow in bunches. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Potatoes are vegetables that grow under the ground...
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- Magazine article from: National Tax Journal Keeler, Theodore E. Hu, Teh-wei Manning, Willard G. Sung, Hai-Yen March 1, 2001 700+ words
...reflecting anti-smoking sentiment is omitted from a cross-sectional (or panel...present paper is an effort to correct for omitted-variable bias. In it, we use a method devised to control for omitted-variable bias (by Chamberlain, 1984...
Source: HighBeam Research, Savoring the past: Ivan days collection of culinary antiques.