Suave and debonair tomato plants
Gordon Grindstaff
G2
I have a sad story to tell this week about planting tomatoes, a story that began innocently enough in the late afternoon of an early spring day about 70 years ago when a nondescript pickup truck pulled up and parked on the side of the road next to the field behind Bicycle John’s house. A man got out of the truck and walked towards a group of 5 or 6 neighborhood boys, one of which was me; we were trying to get in an after-school baseball game before it got dark.
The man, a local, southwestern Indiana guy whose name I don’t remember, gathered us around him.
Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
Eat like a first-century Roman, using recent archaeological discoveries as your guide.
Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
Copy Link
An ancient Pompeiian may have enjoyed this meal of braised duck. Farrell Monaco
In This Story
In the second century, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus, recounting the early stages of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. From his villa in Misenum, across the Bay of Naples from the volcano, he remembered seeing a dark cloud, shaped like an umbrella pine tree, filling the sky over the mountains flanking the northern edge of Sarno River plain. What followed was something that no one in the region was prepared for. A day after Pliny observed that dark cloud, a small tavern in a northeastern section of Pompeii collapsed, along with the rest of the town, under the weight of pumice and ash. This was later followed by a fast-moving pyroclastic surge of ho
Flora Fine Foods expanding with market and cafe - South Florida Sun-Sentinel sun-sentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sun-sentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.