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Explorations across design, food, drink, and language. Long-form, historically anchored, always opinionated.
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Famous Designers
Read: Famous DesignersFrom da Vinci’s notebooks to Jony Ive’s pursuit of thinness — a tour through the designers who shaped how we live, work, and interact with objects.
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The World’s First Cookbook
Read: The World’s First CookbookThe urge to write down recipes is older than you might think. Meet Archestratus — a Greek gourmand who documented his culinary opinions in 330 BCE and never looked back.
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The Michelin Guide: What have tyres got to do with food?
Read: The Michelin Guide: What have tyres got to do with food?A tyre company’s marketing gimmick became the most feared and coveted symbol in fine dining. The unlikely origin story of the Michelin Guide — and what those stars actually mean.
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Sandwiches: A Round of Johns
Read: Sandwiches: A Round of JohnsFrom Mrs. Beeton’s toast sandwich for invalids to the latest fast food monstrosity — a brief, affectionate history of humanity’s most democratic meal.
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The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The Germanic Peoples
Read: The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The Germanic PeoplesGermany’s reputation for beer didn’t emerge from nowhere. The Germanic peoples were brewing long before the purity laws — and the archaeological evidence is as rich as the beer.
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The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The Celts
Read: The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The CeltsThe Celts didn’t just drink beer — they built a culture around it. Iron Age Europe’s most archaeologically rich brewing tradition, and what it tells us about how they lived.
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The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The Greeks and Romans
Read: The History of Beer II – Classical Antiquity: The Greeks and RomansWine may have claimed the prestige, but beer shaped Greek and Roman society long before the amphora arrived. A story of class, culture, and fermented barley.
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The History of Beer I – Ancient Origins
Read: The History of Beer I – Ancient OriginsFew drinks have shaped human history as profoundly as beer. Its rise to near-universal presence was neither accidental nor inevitable.
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