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Tom Little

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Writer/reporter in the Southern U.S. @tommlittle.bsky.social (Bluesky) @tom_matt_o (Instagram)

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Juanita (left) and Esperanza Garcia make tortillas in this photograph from 1937.

food

The Forgotten Chefs Who Made Carne con Chile a Texas Mexican Standard

"Chili queens" spread the dish from San Antonio's plazas.

Two men at the Takanakuy celebrations, Chumbivilcas, Cuzco, Peru.

festivals

December 25, Day of the Fistfighting Festival

In the Peruvian province of Chumbivilcas, physical conflict is an annual sporting event.

The myth of spirit doubles—doppelgängers—has existed since ancient Egypt.

mythology

Tracing the Development of the Doppelgänger

From ancient Egypt to the Victorian era, an encounter with one's double has proven inevitably unsettling.