Anna from Every Angle
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite’s entry on Milk Baths introduces the Ziegfeld sensation Anna Held, who was famously sued by a milk farmer for the amount she owed for keeping her bath tub filled with milk. She’s one of my favorite…
Love to Love
“Good morrow! ’tis Saint Valentine’s Day All in the morning betime. And I a maid at your window To be your Valentine” So sang Ophelia, back in Shakespeare‘s day, when everyone believed that the first person you saw on Valentine’s…
Mmmmm Marmalade
As I write this my kitchen is full to billowing with the most delightful steam, delightful because—for the second day in a row—I’m making a giant batch of marmalade. My expert mother-in-law, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, wrote about the whole process…
Did you ever fantasize that the watchman would forget about you and that somehow you’d get to stay on in the museum all alone after closing time? That’s what it feels like virtually prowling through the emptied museum galleries included…
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