A perfect short story

[sourtrout]

In a wonderful article about Munich that Frau Trout sent me, there was embedded this small paragraph that made me smile right down to the tips of my toes. Another example of Munich's openness is the city's great Englischer Garten (English Garden), one of the largest urban public parks in the world. It was designed in 1789 by Benjamin Thompson (later Count von Rumford), a polymath from Woburn, Massachusetts, who also brought the cultivation of potatoes to Bavaria, where he invented a double boiler, drip coffeepot, kitchen range and "Rumford Soup," a nutritious broth for the poor.
. Read the whole thing as they say!