Will there be a return to servants?
Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy? Or to put it as he does: with so many…
Read moreLest We Forget. Servants in the Kitchen
Last year I wrote a series of posts on servants in the kitchen. A reader asked me to put them together, so here goes. 1. Lest We Forget: Servants in…
Read moreThe Joy of Cooking?
Last week while I was thumbing through some of my books, I came across this lovely passage about whether cooking is a joy, a topic I’ve been kicking around for…
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