by Nicola | Apr 9, 2012
IMAGE: Yogurt foil, photographed by Stanley Greenberg. After I wrote about his image of the abandoned champagne cellar beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, photographer Stanley Greenberg emailed me to say that he had also begun working on a series of photographs of the... by Nicola | Apr 2, 2012
IMAGE: “Detail of a unicorn on the grill,” courtesy the British Library. Yesterday, in a charming April Fool, the British Library’s Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts bloggers breathlessly reported the discovery of a long-lost medieval cookbook,... by Nicola | Feb 21, 2012
IMAGE: Wine Cellar, Brooklyn Bridge, 1992, by photographer Stanley Greenberg, via Urban Omnibus, where you can also view it much larger. Photographer Stanley Greenberg likes to shoot hidden spaces and invisible infrastructure — the overlooked, neglected, or simply... by Nicola | Jan 23, 2012
IMAGE: “Penguin Interviews,” from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1896-1899, via Peter Smith, Food & Think. Very good news: my former colleague at GOOD, Peter Smith, has joined the Smithsonian’s Food & Think blog as a... by Nicola | Jan 22, 2012
IMAGE: Damien Petit and his “Boîte A Pain,” photo by La Dépêche du Midi. Both natives and non-natives alike tend to agree that bread is central to French cuisine, history, and national identity. Indeed, Steven Kaplan, a Cornell University professor who has... by Nicola | Jan 7, 2012
Although the secret recipe for Coca-Cola is known to fewer people than the U.S. nuclear arsenal’s launch codes, there are other, more expensive fizzy drinks whose exact ingredient ratios are proudly revealed on every label. Helpfully, several websites have...