The other day, I was rummaging around on the intertubes, and I landed on a TimesMachine page for a 1952 copy of the New York Times. What rea...

Middlemarch. Yes, I've read it before - I read it in college for English 272, which was a survey class on some 19th century Brit Lit c...

At the end of last year, I learned about a "slow read" of War and Peace . Something about the idea of reading a chapter a day intr...

Of course yes, it's April Fool's Day. It's also the birthday of Gil Scott-Heron (b. 1949), and the anniversary of the day that...

I'm not going to lie: the spice cake with the baked icing intrigued me, because "baked icing". I had never heard of such a...

The last two of Mrs. Wright's recipe cards are for desserts that are a little off the beaten path. When was the last time you had a dess...

The next two desserts are both familiar and not particularly exotic: Pecan Tassies and a Lemon Loaf Cake. It is possible that I kept the car...