Put a Cork in It

If you were paid a penny for every cork you’ve thrown away, you might be… Continue reading

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The Emilia-Romagna region, next door to Tuscany, in Italy is known primarily for simple sparkling… Continue reading

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“He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods that should be carried under the nose, snuffed and then thrown to the dogs … endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

— Vile Bodies (1930) by Evelyn Waugh, as quoted by Charles Spence in Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating