by Barbara Blumenthal | Sep 23, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Six recipes for puff pastry from 1669 to 1970. Eating ice cream in France in the late 19th century. Dining with gladiatorial entertainment. These are just three of the offerings I included in Cabinet of Culinary Curiosities: Books & Manuscripts from the Mortimer...
by Megan Lambert | Sep 27, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Since I’ve worked in one capacity or another in the Education Department of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (www.carlemuseum.org) for the past ten years, visits there are commonplace in my family, but they haven’t become stale in the least. With...
by James Heflin | Sep 2, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
How about we put Hotel Attraction, designed by Antoni Gaudi, wonderfully strange sort-of Art Nouveau architect of Barcelona, at Ground Zero? That ought to please enough folks. It was in fact in contention as a replacement for the Twin Towers some years ago and,...
by James Heflin | Sep 13, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Granted, every good recipe starts with The Onion: SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world....
by James Heflin | Sep 14, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Nothing says comedy like fake bombs and threats of execution! Either something got lost in translation, or Iraqi humor is pretty strange. Although the end of this article says the new Iraqi reality show in which celebrities are stopped by “soldiers,” who...