The awkwardness of dining alone is mostly anticipatory: it is worse in advance than in the moment, and it shrinks quickly with a few deliberate decisions. Here are twelve that…
Dessert is where cooking becomes closest to chemistry, and where small errors are least forgiving. Here are twelve from around the world, and what each one is actually teaching you.…
When something arrives from elsewhere, people tend to name it after wherever it came through rather than wherever it came from. Multiply that by a few centuries of trade and…
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The curse of Tutankhamun is one of the most durable stories in popular history. Nearly everyone knows the shape of it: archaeologists disturbed a pharaoh's rest, and one after…
A bottle of champagne is under roughly five to six atmospheres of pressure. That is comparable to the pressure at a depth of around 50 metres of water, and about…
Try it. Run your fingers along your own ribs, or the sole of your own foot, using exactly the motion that would reduce you to helpless laughter if somebody else…