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Laura Kelley

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Laura Kelley is a cook, writer, lecturer, world traveller and scientist living near Baltimore, Maryland. She has been lucky enough to travel widely and has experienced many cultures and cuisines from Helsinki and the Cape of Good Hope to Hong Kong and back again. She is also a serious amateur photographer and a conservatory trained pianist who can draw and sing and who fancies herself something of a renaissance woman.

She is author of The Silk Road Gourmet - both the book and the blog - and writes about cuisines and cultures to share her experiences and passions for food and life with the world.

For more information about Laura or her books and other writings, visit http://www.silkroadgourmet.com ...more

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Lion in St. Mark’s Square is from China

A recent study at the University of Padua finds that the winged-lion in St. Mark’s Square – the emblem of medieval Venetian statehood – was once a Tang Dynasty tomb guardian. Massimo Vidale and colleagues found that the lead isotopes in metal samples from the Venetian lion closely match the lead composition of copper ore deposits in China’s Lower Yangtze River basin. It was transported ... Read m Read more of this blog post »

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The Silk Road Gourmet: Volume One: Western and Southern Asia

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