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Cookbook Tells The Story Of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Through Food

October 20, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

A recently released cookbook seeks to explore Jaffna cooking, the native cuisine of Sri Lanka. The book seeks to explore and celebrate the culture of the small island nation, while also fusing in elements of remembrance of the country's 26-year civil war. The war ended in 2009 with the defeat of the … [Read more...]

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‘The Hostage’s Daughter’: A Traumatic Ordeal That Shaped The Life Of Sulome Anderson

October 20, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

Recently there has been some insight that has been given into the aspect of one hostages daughter and the traumatic experience that shaped the life in particular of Sulome Anderson. In more detail to this aspect in general when it comes to Anderson, as far back as she can remember which is maybe … [Read more...]

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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

October 20, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

Ruth Franklin definitely pulled no punches when she describes author Shirley Jackson life from birth to adulthood in the novel titled" Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life:it unravels Shirley's life as lonely, unhappy and sometimes depressing and feeling out of place. But her life as a writer was … [Read more...]

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DRAT THAT FAT CAT!

October 20, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

What do you get when you put together a very clean and proper elderly man and a very sloppy and lazy striped cat? Hilarity, of course! This story is about an unlikely friendship between an old man and an abandoned cat that shows us that sometimes the things we really need in our lives are dropped in … [Read more...]

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A Tight, Intense Drama Unfurls Within The Confines Of A Sick Room In ‘The Wonder’

October 4, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

A room that is no more a room but resembles more of a tomb. You are still alive, wasting away in your cell, day and night refusing the simplest of jesters and food. Your nurse can hardly bear it. Watching you like a crow as if counting down the seconds for you. This is the story of young girl in … [Read more...]

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The Sweet Success Of Bananas Foster Has An Unsavory Past

October 4, 2016 By Patrick Leave a Comment

This blog post is about two things. The history of how the fruit in question made its way to the united states in one point, and another point is how and who had a hand in making the banana a 'famous' fruit. The banana came from Cuba and was made well known in the south by a lady who in a desperate … [Read more...]

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