Rock The Vote: Favorite Fake Culinary Icons
Who is your favorite culinary icon who never lived?
Book Expo America: Party With OUP
Party with OUP at BEA!
Women’s History Month: Feminism and Art
There is no perfect marriage between feminism (as a political ideology) and art (as a cultural activity). Feminism promises at the same time to enrich the products of art, to expose the pretensions and vested interests in art and to break open the category of art altogether.
Happy Birthday W. H. Auden!
Happy Birthday Auden!
This Day in History: Dreyfus Condemned
This Day in History, Dreyfus condemned.
The Cratchit’s Christmas Dinner
The Cratchit’s and Christmas Pudding.
This Day in History: Moby Dick is Published
Happy Birthday Moby Dick!
Food, Wine and Photos
Pictures from Food and Wine Events.
This Day in History: The Battle of Chapultepec
This Day in History and the Mexican War.
Mount Cuba Center
Greenville, Delaware, USA
Mount Cuba was the home of Lammot du Pont Copeland and his wife Pamela from 1937 until her death in 2001. They sited their Georgian house (Victorin and Samuel Homsey, architects) atop one of Delaware’s highest hills with magnificent views across steep hills and deep valleys of the Eastern American Piedmont, to the Delaware river […]
The origins of hip hop: Iceberg Slim
Today, we’ll look at one of the literary forerunners of the hip hop revolution; Iceberg Slim. Slim’s works are marked by a criticism of American justice, devotion to the politics of the Black Panthers, frank language, and a combination of violence and sexuality. They remain influential to this day.
Mourning Kermit Hall
Oxford University Press sends its condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and students of one of our most esteemed authors, Kermit Hall, who died in a swimming accident on Sunday, August 13. Kermit Hall was the editor of The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court, The Oxford Companion to American Law, The Judicial Branch in […]
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California, USA
Golden Gate Park was established in 1872 on a site of 410 hectares/1,013 acres, and is one of the finest city parks in the country. The long rectangular park has two distinct sections. The western section adjoining the Pacific Ocean is buffeted by fierce winds and salt-laden air, while the more sheltered eastern section is […]
Washington Park Arboretum
Seattle, Washington, USA
Washington Park Arboretum Designed by James Dawson (1874-1941) of the Olmsted Brothers firm, and was founded in the 1930s with funds and labour from the Works Progress Administration, which provided relief during the Depression. Covering 93 hectares/230 acres in the heart of the city, and encompassing collections of Rhododendron, Cornus, Malus, Ilex, Magnolia, Camellia, Sorbus, […]
A fabulous story, or spilling etymological beans
An instructive essay on etymology need not always be devoted to a word going back to the hoariest antiquity. It can also deal with an “exotic” borrowing like coffee, for example.
On querns and millstones
Have you ever seen a quern? If you have not, Wikipedia has an informative page about this apparatus. Yet there is a hitch about the definition of quern. For instance, Wikipedia discusses various quern-stones, and indeed, pictures of all kinds of stones appear in the article. But stones don’t do anything without being set in motion.