Sublime

and wine made ‘when Opimius was consul’ (121 BCE) was a particularly famous vintage.

Amrita Sher-Gil. I take this last one off the shelf and it falls open at the middle page, which has a picture of her painting Three Girls on it.

Her oldest son, Frederick, put on a uniform and went off to fight. Impatient with Lincoln for not announcing emancipation right away, she went down to Washington when he finally proclaimed that the slaves would be free, and was received privately in the White House. The scene is part of our folklore. “So this is the little woman who made this big w

When in 1575 Dorothy Clevely, a London wife of dubious morals, told her maid Judith to wash her feet and put out a clean smock as she might have to share a bed with some gentlewoman who would be ‘loath to lie with her if her feet were foul and her smock not clean’, she was expressing common sensibilities.

Believing it to be the oldest variety of man, he puts it in “the first place.” His reckoning includes a large dose of aesthetic reasoning, led by the blush.*

(Wine Spectator’s readership is about 2.5 million,

To my eternal delight, the wreck of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s flagship, preserved its firewood deep in its hull for the marine archaeologists to find and bring to the surface in the late 1970s. What was found matched almost exactly the wish list of a Tudor cook and the regulations governing the sale of firewood. Over 600 logs were found, comprisi

Spring grass made for rich, creamy milk, ideal for making butter, but as summer approached and the grass changed, milk became less creamy but much richer in caseins, a form of protein. The higher the casein content, the higher the cheese yield. So while both butter and cheese production could be undertaken throughout the milking season, good dairy