Probably best tessellated rhubarb you’ll see today.Via @presentcorrect pic.twitter.com/CqSfkBGSyr — 78 Derngate (@78Derngate) February 6, 2018 I hope y’all can see the embedded tweets peppered throughout this post. I have […]
As both a visual art and a narrative form, video games can utilize many of the same food themes that appear in film, literature, and art: food in games can invoke […]
Just a soupçon of beautifully animated scenes of eating to start your weekend. I’m not sure when I first saw this clever stop-motion movie, but when it popped up on my […]
Don’t forget that there is now a Tumblr companion to this blog, which features some rebloggable content from this site as well as many food-related .gifs, links, and graphics that […]
I’ve been watching Wolf Hall (again!) with a friend who recently picked up the novels. Both the books and the television adaptation are very dense with detail, so there’s always […]
Midcentury Menu is a blog that recipe-tests vintage dishes like meat loaves and meringue pies and posts the (often hilarious) results. The blogmistress recently teamed up with the food stylist […]
Near the end of the eighteenth century, the British East India Company was one of the world’s biggest and richest business associations. Despite trade regulations, the company effectively held a monopoly on trade between […]
In 1992, the public voted for Hilary Clinton’s cookies. How this cookie election came about is a little convoluted. To oversimplify: Clinton’s successful career in law became fodder for political opponents who wished to […]
Prior to the Reform Act of 1832, only a fraction of the population of England could vote for a Parliamentary representative, and the qualifications for enfranchisement varied greatly among boroughs. In […]
It’s finally starting to warm up in Philly, but there are still big gray piles of snow on the ground and enough chill in the wind to turn our faces […]
