Fool for all seasons
I replied to a call for April 1 articles for a small, local paper. My piece was rejected on the grounds that it too directly referenced a local personage. Skirt's vs Short's: battle of sexes brewing in craft beer scene By Imbibio DeBeers The vast majority of the history of beer belongs to women. Take the case of the witch – one of the most powerful icons of magical femininity. A 2020 study reported that everything from cats and brooms to pointy hats and enchanted potions are all related to women’s dominance in the brewing activities of prehistoric civilizations. Cats were kept to guard the grain used in beer production from rodents. Brooms propped open doors where fermented beverages were available and tall hats marked heads of women associated with ales sales. “Women, or alewives or brewsters, were historically the primary producers of beers/ales for about 20,000 years,” says the research from the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure . After millennia of doing t