Rachel Laudan

  This is one of the family milking stools.  Yes, it’s as short as it looks, just about twleve inches high, just right to reach a cow’s udder. By the time I was growing up, no one milked by hand any more.  The cows lined up for the rank of Alfa-Laval milking machines.  The dairy [...]

He was just a little boy.  He lived in the country.  So why were brown spots spreading on his skin, why were his joints swollen and aching, why were his gums bleeding? No one knew.  Nobody had a cure. His mother ignored the nutritional advice of the day, advice that suggested that all that a [...]

“A long-lost medieval cookbook, containing recipes for hedgehogs, blackbirds and even unicorns, has been discovered at the British Library. Professor Brian Trump of the British Medieval Cookbook Project described the find as near-miraculous. “We’ve been hunting for this book for years. The moment I first set my eyes on it was spine-tingling.”” via Unicorn Cookbook [...]