Mead ingredients of alcoholic beverages led to commercial mead becoming a more obscure beverage until recently. Some monasteries kept up the old traditions of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not be grown. The English "mead" – "fermented honey drink" – derives from the Old English "meodu" or "medu", and Proto-Germanic, *"meduz" (source also of Old Norse mjöðr, Danish mjød, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch mede, Old High German metu, German Met "mead"). "Madh", and the related terms "mad" (मद, مد) and "madira" (मदिरा, مدِرا), also mean alcohol. These words are all derived from the
The Third Ingredient beef rib in much the same role as the stone in "Stone Soup". The Third Ingredient "The Third Ingredient" is a short story by O. Henry, notable for its ironic take on the "Stone Soup" theme. The story was originally published in 1908 in "Everybody's Magazine" with illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. The next year it was included in O. Henry's collection "Options". As reported by O. Henry's good friend and biographer C. Alphonso Smith, "The Third Ingredient" was inspired by a real experience: ... in one of his first months in New York he was living in very humble