Candlestick salad is a delicious and attractive Victorian recipe that is periodically revived today–probably because in addition to being tasty, it’s low-fat, high in fiber and nutrients, and wondrously filling.

I keep running into claims that the half-snake, half-human naga form is a fannish creation, and that genuine mythological nagas don’t have arms. It’s puzzling, because a bunch of 13th-century Indians thought they had arms… and so did some folks from Jabalpur… and some 12th/13th-century Thais who worshipped Naga Kanya… and some 15th-century Nepalese… I started a link list and gave up after a couple of hours when I got bored. Surely I’m not the only person who’s used Google Image Search for “naga” or “nagini”?