Word: spanishing
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...visit - where we got to know local produce, taste handmade cheeses, and meet the growers who supplied our ingredients. Later, as we prepped the two dozen items for a Oaxacan mole negro (chicken in a dark-brown spicy sauce), Cabrera explained its origins. The dish was developed during the Spanish colonial era and contains ingredients from as far away as India. "My class isn't just about making recipes," she says. "I'm sharing a tradition." The experience couldn't have been more delicious. At the end of class, we sat down to a table laid with earthenware plates...
...Language is such a marker of culture and class,” she says. “My parents spoke very good Spanish, and because of that they thought it would have been a disservice to not encourage us in English...
...deal of social and cultural conditioning involved. For example, it is popular to argue that chocolate is addictive and point out that women often crave it uncontrollably, especially after disappointments in love or before their periods. While that may be true of American women, the urge is not universal. Spanish women don't yearn for chocolate; they crave cream puffs...
...Number of consecutive clay-court wins by Spanish ace Rafael Nadal after his opening-round victory at the French Open, breaking a record for men's tennis held since 1977 125 Record for consecutive clay-court wins by any player in history, held by women's tennis legend Chris Evert...
Today's monoclonal linguistic culture is far from hypothetical. Growing rapidly through immigration, it creates large communities--in some places already majorities--so overwhelmingly Spanish speaking that, in time, they may quite naturally demand the rights and official recognition for Spanish that French has in French-speaking Qu?...