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Imagine a restaurant that worked like this: you walked into a marble-and-chrome hall, changed a dollar into nickels at a booth staffed by a woman who could throw exact…
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Every American kitchen once contained a box that told the truth about summer: keeping anything cold required somebody, somewhere, to have harvested winter itself — sawed it from a…
Order "tea" in Charleston and it arrives cold and sweet without a follow-up question; order an egg cream in Manhattan and no one warns you about the name; ask for…
Every American summer runs on the same dessert lineup — the campfire s'more, the drugstore banana split, the ice cream sandwich melting faster than anyone can eat it — and…
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Somewhere in your town — possibly on your street, possibly under your own roof — there's a good chance a house arrived by train. Not the lumber for a…
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Every city keeps a story that outsiders refuse to believe until they look it up. Boston's is the one about the molasses.
It goes like this: on an unseasonably…