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Opinion: This is the dessert that explains America

3 years 11 months ago
Perhaps the most memorable recipe in "The Suffrage Cook Book," published in 1915 by the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania is "Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband," which instructs: "Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust." The introduction to the volume, whose message was votes for American women, asserts that "the dining room is a greater social factor than the drawing room."

The Italian city where the houses are fit for royalty

3 years 11 months ago
It's the Italian city home to palaces so spectacular that they're UNESCO World Heritage sites. A city that was once home to so much wealth that the local aristocracy lived in environments literally fit for a king, and the place where Rubens began his great artistic career.
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