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Updated: June 19, 2023 by Colman Andrews
“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early,” the comedian Kathy Griffin apparently once said, “and it’s not […]
Published: June 15, 2023 by Colman Andrews
According to a Gallup poll published early this year, 79% of American respondents rate the ethical standards of nurses as […]
Published: June 13, 2023 by Colman Andrews
After seeing how locals froze food in the winter while working as a fur trader in Labrador, Canada, New York […]
We all know that eating a lot of fast food is bad for our health. That doesn’t stop almost 40% […]
Fads and fashions have always been part of the world of food. When a certain athlete in Ancient Greece ate […]
Published: June 12, 2023 by Colman Andrews
“Alcohol consumption is a heritable complex trait,” according to a paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in 2019. In […]
Published: June 7, 2023 by Colman Andrews
Eating out in a restaurant can be a wonderful experience, but it also involves a commitment of time and money […]
Published: May 29, 2023 by Colman Andrews
In the annals of American history, there are battles that have etched themselves into the collective memory, forever shaping the […]
Published: May 26, 2023 by Colman Andrews
They called her an icon, and “one of the most powerful and charismatic performers in the world.” She was hailed […]
Published: May 22, 2023 by Colman Andrews
Food snobs and scholars may debate whether or not there’s such a thing as American cuisine. A distinguished Yale history […]
Spies have been a movie staple for almost a century. Though there may have been references to espionage in earlier […]
Updated: May 25, 2023 by Colman Andrews
Americans love to snack. The market research firm NPD reported that we consumed nearly 386 billion ready-to-eat individual snack foods […]
Published: May 14, 2023 by Colman Andrews
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language,” George Bernard Shaw once said (perhaps). There’s no denying […]
America is a huge country with immense variation in climate and topography and a diverse population drawn from hundreds of […]
Published: May 7, 2023 by Colman Andrews
Food fashions come and go just like fashions of any other kind. Availability of new ingredients, increased familiarity with different […]
Published: May 6, 2023 by Colman Andrews
In the 1970s, disco was big and hip-hop was growing, but the period was also known for a number of […]
Americans love Italian food. Four of the top 20 most successful restaurant chains in the country are Italian (more or […]
Published: May 1, 2023 by Colman Andrews
A duel is a formalized fight between two individuals, theoretically with equally matched weapons — almost always either swords or […]
Published: April 26, 2023 by Colman Andrews
HBO dominated the 2022 Emmy Awards, and it looks set to do so again this year, with dozens of nominations […]
Published: April 25, 2023 by Colman Andrews
In 2022, according to the American Library Association, there were some 1,269 attempts to ban books around the country – […]
New England — comprised today of the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island — was […]
Published: April 19, 2023 by Colman Andrews
For a dead language, Latin still has plenty of life in it. A dead language is one that’s no longer […]
Published: April 18, 2023 by Colman Andrews
There are more than 200,000 words in the English language — words drawn from Germanic roots, from Latin and Greek, […]
Published: April 4, 2023 by Colman Andrews and Christina Nava
The famed Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank once said “There is one thing the photograph must contain – the […]