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...familiar scarlet and the rarer black - and other "aggregate" fruits like raspberries, currants and gooseberries. Next come stone fruits - cherries that deepen in shade from pale orange-red to deep purple; plums in all the primary colors; apricots; peaches; nectarines. He includes pineapples - brought to Europe by Columbus and one of the more popular fruits of the 18th and 19th centuries - as well as grapes, melons and nuts, before ending with pears and apples. Brookshaw wanted to promote "the highest flavored fruit, and from the earliest to the latest period possible." But by the standards of today's supermarket, most...
...goal date is always around Columbus Day, but the turning on is largely temperature driven. Once we get to 55 degrees for any length of time, we turn on the heat,” said Zak M. Gingo, manager of administrative operations...
...into the Discovery Zone store in Brattle Square and tell the staff that, in the spirit of Columbus, you’ve made a “discovery” of your own: Their store is dumb...
...Much as Columbus asked Ferdinand and Isabella to finance his voyage to India, ask your roommates to finance your voyage to a case of Harpoon India Pale...
...like, “Ooh, look at me, I’m Columbus, I think I’m a big deal because I fell ass-backwards into the Americas...