Porter (1/2 to 1 cup of dark, sweet beer - Guinness is fine, or brandy or sweet sherry can be substituted) Optional: mixed spice, ground ginger, juice of an orange. Quantities are very vague. The ...

VICTORIAN MANGER HERBS Herbs were an integral part of life during the Victorian era. During the Christmas season, herbs were used in holiday foods and to scent the holiday atmosphere. They were ...

In 1896, Boston's Fannie Farmer published the best-selling cookbook of the era -- The Boston Cooking School Cook-Book. And in 2007 Chris Kimball, the host of PBS's America's Test Kitchen, set out to ...

After turning down the volume on high-end food in his last cookbook for home chefs, celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal swings back to high falutin gastronomy in his latest tome, which pulls old medieval ...

Next week, the University of Chicago Press will publish a facsimile of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, first published in 1889. Included among the illustrations of such unnatural ...

Charles Darwin is forever linked to evolution, thanks to his groundbreaking book “The Origin of Species.” Now, his wife is making a contribution to evolution of another kind. Dusha Bateson and Weslie ...

Karpeles Museum is hosting a series of fundraisers for Loaves & Fishes and the YWCA's Young Mothers Project in conjunction with its exhibit on Charles Dickens. Dickens made economic inequalities in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...