Each year on International Women’s Day over on Instagram, I compile the list of the international vintage cookbook authors that were newly discovered in the previous year via books curated for the shop. It’s one of my most favorite posts of the year since it highlights not only heritage r...
The book suggests people with type O blood should eat more meat and less bread. A diet for people with type A blood includes more vegetables. His book, Eat Right for Your Type, has been a hit with people who want to lose weight. However, Dr. Peter D' Adamo believes that...
Immerse yourself in the narrow, winding streets of the old town, where every corner reveals a new story waiting to be discovered. At Porto with History, we understand that family is important. While this hotel does not allow children to stay free of charge, we do offer a range of ...
Eating fish on the Friday before Easter Sunday originated with Catholics, who abstained from eating warm-blooded animals on Fridays in order to acknowledge and repent for Jesus’ death. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and Christians believe that on Good Friday, Jesus gave ...
Seafood Mediterranean Culinary history Eating habits Cookbooks Recipes 1. Introduction “In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight” (Brillat-Savarin, 1826). In antique thought the sea was uncertain: bountiful, but also frightening to life; rich in...
For example, it’s not very nice if you stare at people while they’re eating, better to buy your own snacks. I don’t have too many rules because he doesn’t like going out very much. I just let him do things his own way. I show a lot of leniency, and I’m happy with his...
It is said that Oin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin Dynasty (221 B C-206 B. C), took his army to southern China to wage war, aiming to unify southern China. However, the soldiers are from northern China and got used to eating wheat. They could not adapt to eating rice, which...
(e.g. flour, sugar), but there were no supermarkets or mass pre-packaged food items for convenience, like today. The food was not pre-packaged and there were no refrigerators, as we know them today. Therefore eating seasonal produce was essential. Women of the household, to ensure there ...
Why we do not say “hello” or, “don’t” for that matter as we never “clip our words” François Cogné 1859 (78.2403) Ballarat’s middle class shopping on Main Road, Ballarat East in 1859 In welcoming you to the nineteenth-century world of Sovereign Hill one of the first things ...
Columbia University Press' book featuresThe Supper at Emmaus, by Caravaggio, on its cover, showing bread, wine jugs, a dead fowl, and a bowl of fruit, the latter clinging to the edge of the table. Now let's face it, presumably Jesus Christ at this point was not into eating, having ...