What these have in common is that the food is doing a job beyond being eaten - marking a date, using a glut, requiring several people to make it, or…
Once you can name the mechanism, the failures become predictable rather than mysterious. Almost every sauce disaster is one of four things going wrong. Here are fifteen.
1. Roux-Thickened Sauces…
What makes these places worth visiting is not the spring itself but what a community does when free heat is available indefinitely. The answers are remarkably consistent. Here are ten.…
These are working burial grounds and should be treated as such. They are also, by design, significant works of landscape architecture and among the quietest and best-planted spaces in the…
The logic is consistent wherever it appears. Put the settlement on ground that is hard to attack, above the bad air of the valley floor, and on rock that would…
The recurring problem is the same everywhere: sleep appears to be necessary, and being asleep is dangerous. Almost every solution below is a compromise between those two facts. Here are…