This post first appeared on WFAEats, a blog affiliated with Charlotte’s NPR station. http://wfae.org/post/english-lesson-how-i-learned-eat-cold-fried-chicken All the recent news about the United Kingdom took me back to 1974, when I was a college student in Brighton. The oil embargo hit Britain hard that winter while the Troubles in Northern Ireland continued to boil over with occasional bomb threats and road …
My DNA results are in
If you follow me on Facebook, you saw the big Union Jack I posted recently to honor my British ancestors. I took a DNA test through ancestry.com and the results came back as I expected, more or less. It came as no shock to me that I’m a white European, more than ¾ from the British Isles. That came as …