The pre-launch issue of GILDED included an article on the popularity of dining in Chinese restaurants and chop suey joints in Gilded Age America. In response to one reader’s request for actual recipes from that era, I dug up a few digitized cookbooks available online to oblige her request! The[...]
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June 28th, 2009 - 10:57 am § in Amusements, Sport
A Day at the Links
The Edwardian era saw the growth of golf into a worldwide sport. Despite a brief entry into English consciousness in the 15th and 16th centuries, the game became wildly popular outside of Scotland when Englishmen founded the Royal North Devon Club at Westward Ho! in 1864. There were golf clubs in Br[...]
La Jeune fille à marier
He had drawn out his cigarettes as he spoke, and she reached her hand toward the case. “Oh, do give me one–I haven’t smoked for days!” “Why such unnatural abstinence? Everybody smokes at Bellomont.” “Yes–but it is not considered becoming in a jeune fil[...]
