Tag Archives: Vicia faba

Shelling fava fasulye on the back porch (with recipe)


When I last left you, most of the Karagöz puppets were snoozing in the unseasonable sun, and the Write-a-matrix had slunk off in supreme defeat, after I failed to do academic work OTHER than grading papers. This left me on … Continue reading

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Of oxen, calves and paper tigers: Öküz altında buzağı aramak


All day, the impish Karagöz has been lounging around the dining room table, giggling and rolling about.  Every once in a while, when I come in from my spot on the back porch, where I am grading yesterday’s tests, he … Continue reading

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