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Published: March 17, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Spring has sprung, at least according to one definition of the season. March 1 marked the start of meteorological spring, […]
Published: March 16, 2024 by Colman Andrews
There’s a liturgical reason people originally tended to drink so much on St. Patrick’s Day: While the date of Easter, […]
Published: March 14, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The milkshake got its name because, back before electric milkshake-makers or blenders were invented, it was made the same way […]
Published: March 13, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The Irish, and probably specifically Irish monks, almost certainly invented whiskey — which is a spirit distilled from barley and […]
Published: March 12, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The World Health Organization declared that the then-fledgling COVID-19 epidemic was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on Jan. […]
If you use marijuana, aka cannabis, whether you smoke it, eat it, or use it as a medicinal extract, you […]
Published: March 10, 2024 by Colman Andrews
People have been writing about food for almost 4,000 years, about as long as there’s been a written language (cuneiform, […]
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Published: March 8, 2024 by Colman Andrews
In 1995, an American writer with Irish ancestry, Thomas Cahill, published a book called “How the Irish Saved Civilization.” His […]
In the film and television world, “whitewashing” has two meanings: the converting of characters who were one race in the […]
“It’s a beautiful day in the” in the immortal words of Mr. Rogers. But of course the day looks more […]
Published: March 6, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The first-ever television drama was a 40-minute radio play adapted for TV called “The Queen’s Messenger,” broadcast in 1928 by […]
Published: March 5, 2024 by Colman Andrews
When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles in 1929, there were […]
COVID-19 has all but disappeared from the consciousness of huge swaths of the American public, but it certainly hasn’t gone […]
Published: March 2, 2024 by Colman Andrews
A cameo was originally a kind of jewelry consisting of a piece of dark-hued stone, usually oval in shape, with […]
Published: February 29, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Is COVID-19 still a threat to the American population? You wouldn’t think so these days, when almost nobody — and […]
Updated: March 1, 2024 by Colman Andrews
According to the web scraping service SmartScapers, there were 89,361 sandwich shops in America as of Jan. 9 of this […]
Published: February 27, 2024 by Colman Andrews
It’s not the job of an American president to be popular. What’s important is that he (and maybe someday she) […]
Published: February 26, 2024 by Colman Andrews
“[W]hen a man makes lunch his first meal of the day it becomes ‘brunch’,” according to an article appearing in […]
Published: February 23, 2024 by Colman Andrews
Bourbon — whiskey distilled from corn (mostly) and sometimes other grains — can be produced anywhere in the United States, […]
According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly a quarter of Americans skip breakfast – widely considered to be the […]
Published: February 22, 2024 by Colman Andrews
The good news for anyone who chafed under pandemic restrictions is that the few that remain are loosening all the […]
Published: February 21, 2024 by Colman Andrews
As of 2023, there were more than 200,000 fast food outlets of various kinds around the United States, and American […]
The first published recipe for something that sounds pretty much like modern-day potato chips appeared in an English cookbook back […]
When we think of restaurant chains, the first ones we think of are probably fast food operations – known in […]