{"id":2910,"date":"2013-01-29T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:49:51","slug":"the-history-of-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/01\/29\/the-history-of-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly Slate pisses me off, but occasionally it publishes something interesting. Today&#8217;s find is an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2013\/01\/indus_civilization_food_how_scientists_are_figuring_out_what_curry_was_like.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2\">the history of curry.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists from the US and India are working in the Indus River Valley. They analyze the microscopic signatures of food remains to determine what people ate thousands of years ago. The ingenious methods are fascinating to read about.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise surprise &#8212; they were currying the heck out of their cuisine, just the way we do today. [Well, not in exactly the same manner, but surely with the same amount of enthusiasm!]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Now I want curry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1455650.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1455650.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1455650.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly Slate pisses me off, but occasionally it publishes something interesting. Today&#8217;s find is an article on the history of curry. Archaeologists from the US and India are working in the Indus River Valley. They analyze the microscopic signatures of food remains to determine what people ate thousands of years ago. The ingenious methods are&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/01\/29\/the-history-of-curry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The history of curry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631,639],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}