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Is there a term for a gathering of trees in an open field?
  • Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I'm not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

  • Edit: (What do you call this dish?)
  • Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.

  • How to make sourdough without messing with starter every day?
  • I haven't tried it myself yet, but you can get yeast improvers , a powdered 'mother yeast' that claims similar results to sourdough.

    I have a starter in the fridge that I only use once every two or three weeks, and have not had any mould problems; perhaps you just have to be only a little less lazy to keep a viable one, and feed on that sort of a schedule?

    I agree though, that making sourdough bread can be a nuisance time-management-wise until you find some sort of rhythm that suits you.

  • How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours
    www.theguardian.com Inside the surprisingly secretive world of crisp flavours

    Why can you buy lasagne flavour snacks in Thailand but not in Italy? Which country can cope with the hottest chilli? And why do Germans like paprika so much?

    Inside the surprisingly secretive world of crisp flavours
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    Photographs by Rachel Adams reveal a new generation of Morris dancers

    While living in Southampton and working at a local newspaper, photographer Rachel Adams, to her delight, discovered a new generation of Morris dancers performing at pubs, events and festivals. The fresh choreographed figures jumping up and down to music, clad in costumes covered in bells, and waving handkerchiefs and bashing sticks sparked her curiosity. She wanted to know more about what these young people found so intriguing about this English folk tradition, which usually has a bad reputation.

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    Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times?
  • I can't go on. I'll go on.

    (Samuel Beckett)

  • We're thinking about merging some of the cooking/food communities, want to get your input
  • I think it's a very good idea, and I can't see any obvious disadvantages except, perhaps, the loss of posting and comment history from the currently existing communities.

    Maybe also consider merging !foodporn@lemmy.world ? That one seems to be quite general too, and posts often become discussions of how to cook the showcased dish (plus I really dislike the name of the community).

  • "There's a thing that I don't know what is" - Is this correct grammar?
  • I don't think I've come across that before, but I'd say it depends on what is meant:

    • I don't know what that thing is.
    • There is a thing, but I don't know what it is.
    • There is a thing such that I don't know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

    There may well be some other ones, but I don't know what they might be.

  • What are your favorite umami ingredients to add to a dish?
  • Yes, it is a famously polarizing taste, but a small amount in something hefty like a ragout adds umami without adding too much of the marmite flavour. I'm vegetarian, and find it's really handy for adding meatiness to such things.

    If you try it and like it, do try marmite spaghetti.

  • What are your favorite umami ingredients to add to a dish?
  • Miso, Marmite, MSG, and Maggi are all good.

    Not all at once, though.

  • Is there any form of printer that isn't a complete con-job or scam?
  • I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I'm very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I've also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

  • What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read?
  • Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

  • TIL that America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people
  • Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what's current with my children's generation (South London): it's a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it's what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.

  • TIL that America is one of the few cultures with insults for smart people
  • These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don't think these are imported from the US, as they've been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?

  • The Latte Maker
  • It reminds me of Vermeer's Milkmaid. Not Renaissance either, but a beautiful photograph never the less. Accidental Baroque?

  • What pen & ink are you using today?
  • A red Majohn A1 with a Pilot VP stub nib in place of the standard EF nib, Lamy Peridot ink.

  • "Curly" apostrophe
  • That's interesting. I wonder why we're getting different results.

    Different versions of xetex, perhaps? I'm using

    XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)

    A little out of date, as I haven't got around to updating my Debian yet.

  • "Curly" apostrophe
  • Did you try my minimal example? I don't use xelatex, but I've just tried running it on my example code and the output is the same as with pdflatex.

  • "Curly" apostrophe
  • Isn’t that what you get if you use the ’ character for apostrophes? For example:

    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}
    My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
    \end{document}
    
    
  • "Curly" apostrophe
  • Isn't that what you get if you use the ' character for apostrophes? For example:

     \documentclass{article}
     \begin{document}
     My apostrophe's curly. Or is it?
     \end{document}
    
  • The lemmy.world bubble is back
  • My example did not make it to lemm.ee either, so it would not have been exclusively a feddit.uk issue.

    I would be really handy for finding out what's going wrong if there were some way to track the history of a posting as it propagates across instances, but I'd imagine that would be quite tricky to do. On the other hand, perhaps these cases simply correlate with downtime either at the origin or at the receiving instance?

  • The lemmy.world bubble is back
  • I'm not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:

    My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk

    I haven't posted any comments since, so I don't know if it's a one-off thing.

    Beehaw's defederation of lemmy.world doesn't seem to be involved in this one.

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