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This is a site dedicated to food history and ephemera of every kind. For more of my work, please also see christinebaumgarthuber.com. And make sure to check out my book Fermented Food: The History and Science of a Microbial Wonder, coming out Spring/Summer 2021 from Reaktion Books.

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Category: preserves

Honeyed Treats to Tame the Wildest Were-Bear

While on his way to the Lonely Mountain to burgle the hoard of the great dragon Smaug, Bilbo Baggins, hero of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit, encounters the wild but benevolent Beorn, a “skin-changer” who divides his time between the man and bear forms he assumes at will.

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Posted on July 2, 2011July 22, 2020 by theausteritykitchen 0

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