Bartolomeo Scappi, who was the personal cook of popes and author of the earliest illustrated cookbook, was the first man known to have scoured different cities for new ingredients and recipes and to have invented new dishes just for the sake of creativity. His banquets were renowned among prelates and nobles all over Europe.
Tag: 03.03.17
Maggie Smith Knows She’s Hard To Work With, And She Wishes She Were Like Judi Dench
“The awful thing is, I’m very aware when I’m being difficult, but I’m usually so scared. And that’s shaming, at the age one is. Because every time I start anything, I think, ‘This time I’m going to be like Jude, and it will all be lovely, it will be merry and bright, the Quaker will come out in me.’ But it never works.”
The Pantone System Of Color Standards We Now Use? It Was Based On Birds
Yes, indeed – it was first developed by an ornithologist in 1886; he expanded it for the rest of us in 1912. Allison Meier explains.
Can Lyric Opera Of Chicago Survive The 21st Century?, Asks Leading Chicago Business Magazine
Lyric general director Anthony Freud, along with the company’s CFO and board chairman, remember the days (the ’90s and before) when their season sold out on subscription, describe the extra attention they’re offering subscribers today, and list half a dozen strategies they’re using to strengthen operations and increase income (which has been suffering).
Does Learning Other Languages Make You More Empathetic?
Even though it’s largely accepted that our spoken languages don’t completely determine what we think, they do influence how we think (and feel and behave) in subtler ways–including how and when we experience empathy.
New NPR Guidelines Wrestle With Conflict Between Transparency And Reporter-Funder Firewall
Traditionally, the network took care to keep reporters from even knowing what donors or organizations might be funding coverage of the stories they work on. But it’s difficult to do that at the same time you’re trying to be clear to listeners about who’s providing the money to support the reporting.
The Flapbooks Of 16th-Century Venice (They Were Oh-So- Naughty)
The city’s ingenious publishers came up with the perfect souvenir for a wealthy tourist to bring home from what was then a famously libertine city.
Producing Plays In A Theatre “Desert”
“My small town was in what I call a new play desert. If you were a playwright, the closest market for your new play was a few workshop opportunities forty-five minutes away in the next city. There was a regional theatre, a theatre department at the local university, and a community theatre, but none of them were very open to producing or even reading new plays. After taking two playwriting classes at my alma mater, I found myself surrounded by ten or so students that had caught the writing bug with no outlet left to develop their plays once the semester was over. So I took it upon myself to provide that outlet for them and myself. I stepped out of the theatre “dojo” to provide an oasis in the middle of this desert.”
Spencer Hays, Business Magnate Who Gave A Huge Art Collection To The Musee D’Orsay, Has Died At 80
Mr. Hays had been a Bible salesman, an apparel salesman and a majority shareholder in a business employing college students to sell magazine subscriptions every summer. And he and his wife adored Paris, and French art. “The gift — the largest foreign donation of art to France since World War II — was announced by President François Hollande in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace in October after months of negotiations with the couple.”
Is ‘Viceroy’s House,’ A New Film From Gurinder Chadha, Being Misinterpreted As Anti-Muslim?
Responding to a fierce takedown by author Fatima Bhutto (read that here), the director says she normally wouldn’t respond to criticism, but “Bhutto seems intent on inflaming the racial and religious divisions that my film is intended to challenge.”