Gold
All Gold Doesn't Glitter
An etymology of many things golden.
Fruits
Fruits
Down another rabbit hole... (Or "why are carrots orange?")
As I mentioned in my initial newsletter, I tend to go down a lot of random “rabbit holes” during my research. It seemed fitting, then, that I began this time with a theory I had about orange carrots.
Fruits
This story is bananas. (Or "how banana became a color.")
In under a half century, the humble banana went from being an exotic fruit to an eponymous color. At its peak, the fervor for this fruit could only be compared to that of the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1630s, albeit in a very different way.