The soup in front of Sophia, is Brunswick Stew. Until yesterday I had never (knowingly) supped on Brunswick Stew. Fantastically delicious: navy bean soup with lots of chicken.
More importantly I learned the origin of Brunswick Stew, and the origin of Brunswick.
But here's the biggest treat: this gives me an opportunity to highlight something a reader sent me: chicken paws.
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The Book Page
After visiting the Bellotto / Dresden exhibit yesterday, I had to go back and re-read the Kurt Vonnegut / Slaughterhouse-Five section in Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, c.1986.
At the time of the bombing, Vonnegut was a slave-prisoner working in a maple syrup factory. The state factory was making maple syrup for pregnant mothers. The factory was in/near a slaughterhouse. When the bombing began, the slave-prisoners took shelter in the bovine slaughterhouse, two floors below ground. The bombing was very short-lived. When the survivors came to the surface they saw Dresden completely destroyed.
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