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A fact from Lost Feast appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the book Lost Feast discusses extinct culinary foods, particularly the herb silphium that was prized by Roman and Egyptian societies? Source: "Silphium, a plant that was critical to Roman and Egyptian culinary society, is one of many examples of foods we loved that are now considered extinct." (NPR)

Reviewed: Croton alabamensis var. texensis

Created by Silver seren (talk). Self-nominated at 01:41, 28 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

@Silver seren: This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. With regard to the hook, the information about the Romans and Egyptians needs to be added to the article if you want to mention them in the hook. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Cwmhiraeth: Done. Silver seren^C 18:28, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, this is now good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:14, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]