Thanks to all for the Recipes, but...

[Rodolfo Leoni]

Ad essere sinceri, rodolfo, la mia richiesta di idee per migliorare la mia salute era piuttosto accertare quanti amici ho sul sito, preoccupato per il mio benessere ...

ferdinando

Come vedi, hai molti amici qua.
Spesso un vero amico preferisce dirti una cosa spiacevole ma vera piuttosto che una bella bugia.

English:

You can see many are friends of you here.
A true friend often prefers to tell you an unpleasant truth rather than a beautiful lie.

[fern]

Certo, Verissimo.

Fern

[Laskos]

Due to this post, the preceding one and so many others we have exchanged I feel we are brothers in the soul.

That book you are reading is very good, but there are another about the topic I advise you to read, BTW, I have two of them, the typical mistake of a compulsive buyer, so if you give me your address, brother, I can send it to you
is "How Rome Fell" by good specialist Goldsworthy.

Comme un fou se croit Dieu, nous croyons mortels
Vladimir Nabokov


Thanks Fern, I have two books of Goldsworthy in my general Kindle library, but I have never read more than chapter listing and introduction.



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Heather's "Empires and Barbarians" to me is so excellent and "contemporary" in research, that I am re-reading it. I has many socio-economic, demographic and newly interpreted archaeological data, within a "new" middle road, between cultural dispersal (say borrowed language, pottery and tools), and population movements - almost completely abandoned after the Nazi era. Genetic data started to arrive literally in the last year (I mean 2016-2017) about things happened only 1000 years ago, so precise it became. For example, Britons 1600-1800 years ago had higher proportion of lactose intolerance. At that time London was genetically a diverse place, almost as diverse as it is now. I am sure an analytic guy like Heather will assimilate the new data, and write new and even more adapted monographies.

If you proposed to send me a book, may I ask for another book?

Del amor y todo eso
Fernando Villegas

If there is a paperback edition, I would like it with your (not very brief) hand-written dedication to "Octavia and Kai". I think I am often exasperating people, putting many things in historic context, from sleep patterns in Middle Ages to arrival of agriculture in Europe, but Octavia is still patient with me, and this book seems to tackle "love" often from this perspective. I will send you via PM the address, if you cand send one. Thanks!

[fern]

Happy to do that. I assume, then, she read Spanish.
Thd Goldsworthy books, both of those you have, are very good. Roma fall is perhaps the most interesting.

Fern

[Laskos]

Happy to do that. I assume, then, she read Spanish.
Thd Goldsworthy books, both of those you have, are very good. Roma fall is perhaps the most interesting.

Fern

Thanks! Her proficiency in French and Spanish is better than mine, and even mine in reading is not that bad. I am better at English, Italian and Slavic languages, countries I stayed in for years. What evades us both is German.