The availability of cheap rum, a growing taste for homegrown bourbon and rye, and a plague induced reduction in Cognac, all opened the door for new world spirits. On the west coast, Pisco was imported into the San Francisco area during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Demand increased...
As availability of cultural products increased, so did the need for someone to help you choose. Soon there were curators for all sorts of things. Anyone who made choices for a list was now a curator it seemed. Until there wasn’t a person anymore, but an algorithm. 72Today, the role...
A silkworm deity was a Trade God worshipped by the court and the folk, and was also a spiritual symbol of sericulturists in medieval China. Images of the silkworm deity in ancient Chinese art are important relics of material heritage for studying culture