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Today's favorite typo of my own making is contained in this sentence - "Wells were particularly necessary for monasteries, many of which owned and managed extensive farmlands."
Other observations:
Other observations:
- Poilâne makes extraordinarily good rye-currant bread.
- "Manga head" is a new line of hair gel. It sounds almost surreal enough to be Japanese - but it isn't.
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Wells should have been bells.
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In the middle of paragraph on bells and time-telling, an offhand comment on wells was gratuitous information. Bells are useful for alerting people to what time it is over large areas of land - the sound carries, especially if the bells are large and hung in an elevated bell tower. This is especially true if the folks in question don't have a watch or mobile handy - say, if they were living in the twelfth century.
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And yes, bells makes more sense.
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