22 September 2005

Nuts and blacktop?

Category: Cooking/Food,Interesting Links,Randomness — Posted by Michael at 1932

Here’s a random fact I just read on Emerils.com. Both the macadamia nut and macadam road surface are named after the same guy, John Loudon McAdam. Yesterday he would have been 249 years old.

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