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After all, it is the grandmothers — the bibis — who tell their stories here.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020

As much as geography, they are held together by the fact that all the recipes come from bibis — matriarchs — who are home cooks from the region.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020

"Vaticana bibis, bibis venenum," wrote the Roman satirist Martial in the 1st century: "Drink Vatican and you drink poison."

From Time Magazine Archive

That wines of a resinous taste were esteemed, appears from Martial: Resinata bibis vina, Falerna fugis.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Interrogemus cum: Manducas carnem filii hominis, et bibis sanguinem filii hominis?

From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by Delafield, John