Food, Men, WomenOctober 7, 2009<December 12, 2013 Of Cooking & Gender by Evangeline Holland After reading The New York Magazine’s list of the Top 20 Chef Empires, and perusing a few culinary books I’d borrowed from the library,…
African AmericanJanuary 8, 2009<September 23, 2014 Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy by Evangeline Holland From the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed…
Fashion, MenApril 12, 2008<May 11, 2009 Dressing the Edwardian Man by Evangeline Holland Unlike women’s fashions, traditional articles of gentleman’s clothing changed very little; the only concession to the passing of time were tiny details: a new…