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The cold in an American kitchen in July used to be harvested. Not manufactured - cut, like a crop, out of a frozen pond the previous January.
Crews…
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Pick up a nineteenth or early twentieth century American family Bible and the first thing you notice is that it is enormous - heavy, thick, frequently with a…
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It was a tin. A shortbread tin, a tobacco tin, a coffee can, a cigar box, a glass jar - and inside it, several hundred buttons, loose, mixed,…
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There is an object that turns up constantly on Midwestern farms and almost nobody can identify it. A short cylinder of unglazed red clay, four or six inches…
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There is a complaint that gets made constantly and is usually dismissed as nostalgia: nobody can sharpen anything any more.
It happens to be true, and the reason…
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Homemade soap gets presented now as a craft - a hobby with nice packaging, essential oils, moulds in the shape of flowers, and a certain amount of talk…