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Braised Duck Legs with Figs, Star Anise, and Winter Squash

Serves 6 6 12- to 16-oz. fresh duck legs, trimmed of excess fat Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 Tbs. canola oil 4 medium carrots, cut into 1½-inch pieces 2 medium celery stalks, cut into 1½-inch pieces 1 medium yellow onion, cut into 1½-inch pieces 6 medium cloves garlic, minced 1...

Spiced Rabbit Tagine with Peas and Carrots

Serves 6 2 2½-lb. rabbits, cut into 8 pieces each 2 Tbs. ras el hanout Flaky sea salt (such as f leur de sel) and freshly ground black pepper ¼ cup plus 2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil 1 small yellow onion, finely chopped 2 medium cloves garlic, finely chopped 6 long, slender...

First Cars for Customers

It was one amazing feat to build the first practical motor cars—it was another to start making more and selling them. Just convincing people of their benefits was often difficult. Entrepreneurs, engineers, and aristocrats all played parts in the earliest faltering steps toward car manufacture....

Zsa Zsa Gabor And The Lion

For four hours once—and this was not for a movie script—Zsa Zsa Gabor was sitting in the middle of half a dozen sort of starving lions. This is how it started. Picture Zsa Zsa Gabor, and you get a mental image of this beauty in an...

Pioneer Vehicles

The 19th century saw tremendous advances in engineering, as mechanization transformed production in factories. Inventors turned their attention to replacing the horse with something that could go faster and farther. Steam, electricity, and gas were all tried, and in this early period it was hard...

How To Be Sophisticated?—Dana Wynter

I’m here to preach sophistication for teenage girls, a nice kind of sophistication. In England, where I grew up, girls dressed very, very youthfully and wore no make-up at all until they were seventeen or so—I’ll get to make-up. later—but in America that needn’t be...