This is one of the few food questions where two large, wealthy, heavily regulated food systems have arrived at flatly opposite instructions for the same object, and both are correct.…
The thing modern listeners find hardest to accept is that this was not a cheap tier of service for people who could not afford better. In enormous areas of the…
Americans abroad are frequently surprised to discover that tipping is actually optional elsewhere, and visitors to the United States are frequently baffled by how much is expected and how non-negotiable…
An American arriving in Italy or France in August and discovering that the windows have shutters, glass and nothing else is reliably astonished. An Italian arriving in Ohio and finding…
Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
America Passed a Law to Go Metric in 1975 and Then Made It Voluntary, Which Is Why It Never Happened
The standard account is that Americans are stubborn about measurement. It is not accurate. The United States has been formally committed to the metric system for a very long time,…