Sweeten Thanksgiving with this traditional dish I know this recipe by heart because many times I helped my mother make marshmallow sweet potatoes on the night before Thanksgiving. Such chores were a bargain I’d struck as the oldest of four children, the deal being that if I helped my mother with extra chores, I’d be […]
The island’s demise was a human and Little Ice Age tragedy, not “ecological suicide” In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof misleads us about the awful history of Easter Island (2,300 miles west of Chile), whose vegetation disappeared in the cold drought of the Little Ice Age. In doing so, he blinds modern […]
