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
Romans
The #I Spot for #II
Wherein the Romans went where the in-crowd went…and shared a butt-sponge afterward. One of the most notable trends of 2020 was hoarding toilet paper; you could wander empty aisles at the supermarket where the best you might hope to find would be a particularly large dust bunny you could sock away for a “rainy day.” … Read More
Leave a Good-Looking Corpse
Wherein the family of dead Romans minded their own beeswax again and again. Halloween 2020: A time for kids of all ages to put on masks, then put cloth masks over those, and finally refrain from trick-or-treating altogether to avoid people who aren’t wearing masks. It may not be “the most wonderful time of the … Read More
Grab-and-Go Breakfast
Wherein we breakfast a little like the Romans: with bread, but without belching. Breakfast is seldom a luxurious meal filled with slow-cooked dainties. In fact, if you look up the most common description for breakfast foods, you’ll find our strong preference for “grab-and-go” items: something we can snatch and shove in our food holes as … Read More
