How I Learned of the Venerable Pancake
Occasionally I Google things (it still amazes me that is a verb now). It's one of my favourite 21st century luxuries, with a specific process that happens every time: 1. Have a question, which may or may not be an important or significant one. 2. Look it up on Google. 3. ??? 4. Knowledge acquired. It's fantastic. We in the 21st century who have internet-capable devices are truly spoiled in this way. Nearly the entirety of human knowledge is at our fingertips. So what did I do earlier with this cornucopia of knowledge? 'Pancakes.' Not how to make them. What they are, and the history of them. The process went like this: 1. Pancakes? 2. Look it up on Google. 3. Skim the Wikipedia article. 4. Knowledge acquired, sufficient to satisfy brief curiosity. So having now learned that pancakes in many forms are a staple food all around the world and that the Ancient Greeks were enjoying breakfast pancakes (which they called tēganitēs , among ot...