The Essential Indian Recipes

Good morning. How are you doing? These are unsettling, anxiety-producing times, all over the world. We’re worried — about those we love and about ourselves, about the economy and politics and health of our nation and the ones at and beyond our borders. We’re freaked out about the person shuffling in line at the bank,…

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The Talented Mr. Philbrick

Inigo Philbrick probably didn’t set out to become one of the art world’s great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London, with the financial assistance of one of the industry’s better known dealers. Had elusiveness been Mr. Philbrick’s original intent, he would not likely have gotten himself…

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Why Soap Works

It probably began with an accident thousands of years ago. According to one legend, rain washed the fat and ash from frequent animal sacrifices into a nearby river, where they formed a lather with a remarkable ability to clean skin and clothes. Perhaps the inspiration had a vegetal origin in the frothy solutions produced by…

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