Wherein the Egyptians knew the value of a pickle-fresh complexion. There’s nothing quite like a good pickle—not merely as floppy green planks beside your sandwich, but also as a terrorist-destroying antihero. Whether jazzing up a chicken salad or slaughtering rats and henchmen, it seems there’s little a marinated vegetable can’t accomplish. Even so, the ancient … Read More
Beauty
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Wherein the pinnacle of Georgian English beauty was an increasingly blind and toothless Ronald McDonald. The fashion designer Marc Jacobs once said, “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.” If this is the case, then Marc should find exquisite beauty in the fashions of Georgian England, … Read More
