31 days of halloween
The Heritage Beer Brewed With Some Help From Spiders
When fruit flies love your beer, you don't mind a few webs in the brewery.
Articles by Anne Ewbank
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Stories
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food
The Club Dedicated to Eating Unconventional Aquatic Creatures
The Ichthyophagous Club changed America's relationship to seafood.
festivals
The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces
Then destroying them in a literal hunger games.
food
Why Wartime England Thought Carrots Could Give You Night Vision
The belief that carrots improve your eyesight dates back to World War II propaganda.
music
This Orchestra Makes Music With Celery, Carrots, and Cabbage
They literally shred.
restaurants
The Gilded-Age Dinner Party That Featured 7 Courses and 32 Horses
C.K.G. Billings turned a Manhattan ballroom into a site for a banquet on horseback.
food
Watch a Cookie Soar Into the Stratosphere
Terry the teacake took one giant leap for cookie-kind.
food
The Nixon Dinners That Taught Americans to Stop Worrying and Love Peking Duck
The president's historic trip to China caused a Chinese food boom.
paintings
The Renaissance Painter Who Made Fantastical Portraits From Food
Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted surreal art unlike any of his contemporaries.
food
During an 1870 Siege, Trapped Parisians Dined on Rat, Cat, and Elephant
In a desperate time, the zoo became a source of food.
