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Brisket is a classic cut of meat for the low and slow cook.Joel Villanueva/Getty Images Editor's note: Goats and Soda usually covers stories about the Global South and sometimes looks at how life there holds lessons for all of us.In this story in the Weekly Dose of Wonder series, we look at a culinary technique that had the opposite trajectory: With roots in the Americas, it has spread out around the globe.

Historical fiction writers live in three time zones simultaneously: The past is what they aim to interrogate imaginatively, the present is what they seek to interpret through that recreated past, and the future is what they hope to influence through a newly interpreted present.Often they are driven to embrace this challenging mode of being because specific gaps, omissions, and conflicts in historical record trouble or fascinate them and the only way they can address these aspects is through fictional invention and intervention.

Camille Dungy leaves the dead stalks of her sunflowers standing for winter interest and the occasional bird visitor.Mickey Capper for NPR "I love a person who talks kindly to plants," poet Camille Dungy writes in her new contemplative memoir.And for sure, Dungy can be counted among those who do exactly that.

Carole Lindstrom's new book My Powerful Hair features illustrations by Steph Littlebird.Abrams Books My Powerful Hair is a new picture book that turns a painful truth about racism into a celebration of Native culture.When Carole Lindstrom was a little girl growing up in Bellevue, Nebraska, she really wanted long hair.

State lawmakers have approved Governor Gavin Newsom's bill, which is attempting to increase transparency of the oil industry in the state.It would allow the California Energy Commission to impose penalties, through a regulatory process, if the agency believes oil companies are making excessive profits from gas prices.

Here's a look at the life of Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania congressman.Birth date: May 10, 1958 Birth place: Winchester, Virginia Birth name: Richard John Santorum Father: Aldo Santorum, a psychologist Mother: Catherine (Dughi) Santorum, a nurse Marriage: Karen (Garver) Santorum (1990-present) Children: Isabella, 2008; Patrick, 2001; Peter, 1999; Sarah, 1998; Gabriel, born and died in 1996; Daniel, 1995; Richard Jr., 1993; Elizabeth, 1991 Education: Pennsylvania State University, B.A., Political Science, 1980; University of Pittsburgh, M.B.A., 1981; Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1986 Religion: Roman Catholic Member of the Gang of Seven, a group that exposed and condemned scandals in congress, when in the House of Representatives.

A New Mexico voting rights bill that would expand voting access in the state, including restoring the rights of felons to vote upon release from incarceration, is headed to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to sign after final passage from the state legislature this week.The bill, which Lujan Grisham is expected to sign, is a part of a broad package in the Democratic-controlled legislature to expand voting rights in New Mexico.