Butter in a timber keg was discovered in an Irish bog a few days ago. It may be more than 2,000 years old. Bogs were viewed as a primitive form of refrigeration by people in the past as the peat creates a vacuum around buried material. The vessel “may have been hewn from a tree trunk and [...]
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For the past couple of days I have been wearing a tweed cap straight from Ireland, the type often worn in the United States while golfing. Made by Hanna Hats Ltd. in Donegal, it’s one of the vintage models, similar to this one. Previously I’d been almost exclusively wearing baseball caps. But now I am branching out and [...]
