Get Your Irish Up (GOOD) For St. Patrick’s Day, get to know your Éire-inspired words, from Irish apricots to Irish wolfhounds. St. Patrick’s Day is a time to remember the history and celebrate the culture of the Irish people. Shamrocks! Blarney stones! Claddagh rings! The brogue! James Joyce! Irish apricots! Irish apricots? According to an Oxford English Dictionary quote, Irish apricot is a slang term for a potato ...
Moth Captured (San Diego Reader) The California Department of Food and Agriculture says the first “light brown apple moth” ( Epiphyas postvittana ) to appear in San Diego has been trapped in a Bonsall lemon grove.
Diane Prather: 1 recipe of many mincemeat variations (Craig Daily Press) Thanks so much to all of the readers who have sent in recipes for mincemeat and pemmican. Who would have thought there were so many mincemeat recipes? This week’s first mincemeat recipe calls for green tomatoes. What a great way to use up all those green tomatoes in the fall.