Curations from the Human Jungle
[I hope you have a steaming cup of hot coffee to warm you while reading this story. You know ... I hope ... that I don't really live in The Jungle. I don't sit around all day, eating bananas and leaving, waiting for one of my harem to pick lice off of me. The real... Continue Reading →
The history of measuring a dollop or a pinch. By Claire Cock-Starkey Published in Lapham's Quarterly, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2023 Below: Cooking: The Cook, by Edouard Vuillard, 1934. The Cleveland Museum of Art. In evidence given to Parliament’s 1862 Select Committee on Weights and Measures, a Mr. Greenall remarked on the extraordinary number of different historical weights and... Continue Reading →