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The South Carolina city used the metal tags to identify enslaved people hired out as part-time laborers by their enslavers Students and faculty conducting excavations at the College of Charleston in South Carolina have discovered a “slave badge” dated to 1853. As Chase Laudenslager reports for WCBD, these small metal tags proved that an enslaved person’s enslaver hadContinue reading “This Rare Copper Badge Tells a Story of Slavery in 19th-Century Charleston”

Generation Z is putting its own spin on knafeh, a dish first designed to quash a caliph’s hunger pangs Chef Fadi Kattan has fond memories of seeing a tray of glistening golden-topped knafeh being placed in the center of his family’s dining table. “I remember the warm syrup being poured on top of it, pistachios being thrownContinue reading “The TikTok-Famous Dubai Chocolate Traces Its Origins to the 13th-Century Middle East”