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...
Dear Marilyn, Remember when you said, “If I had a child, a little girl, I would bring her up to have all the things I never had. I don’t mean material things like clothes and money. They’re nice, too—but—I mean love. People caring about her. People...
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...
Serves 4 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (2½ to 3 lb. total) Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 oz. (4 Tbs.) unsalted butter ¾ lb. fresh pearl onions, peeled 6 medium cloves garlic, thinly sliced ½ tsp. smoked sweet paprika (pimenton) 1½ cups cane vinegar 1½ cups lower-salt chicken broth 4 large...
It wasn’t that I was a fiend type. As a matter of fact, when I look back on my boyhood I see myself as a walking symbol of the YMCA—such an angel that it’s a wonder I lived through it. At home in Beechhurst on...
A classic side dish that all cooks should have in their recipe boxes....
One afternoon, Doris Day left her studio dressing room and started walking over to the set. Then the pain hit her. It hit her like the shock of an unexpected breaker in an angry sea and she was drowning with it. Her heart was a hammer and...
It isn’t at all unusual for the girl with the lavender personality to get three phone calls from three fascinating men in the space of a few hours in the evening. For instance . . . the phone rings . . . and a liquid voice,...
For three years we’ve known the story of Paul Newman’s secret love. For three years we refrained from printing it because we hoped things would become right again with Paul and his wife, Jackie. But now that there’s no hope left—we feel we have to...
Despite the legacy of energy crises and the recessions there were still plenty of buyers for the most glamorous cars, just as there had always been. Group B rally racing added extra impetus to the creation of truly spectacular performance cars, the new competition category...