August's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies is all about those who have scared the hello out of their fellow humans throughout the years.
Like what, you say? Like this!
Val HOLLA!
Hide your kids, hide your wife and come learn about how the Vikings freaked out Western Europe for a few hundred years. No big deal.
Alcibiades: The 300 Times A Million
I’ll be honest, I’m not quite sure...
Looking to take a class this week? We've got you covered, of course:
Altering Consciousness through Art History: Minimalism and Surrealism - two week course, starts Monday, July 23
Masters of Social Gastronomy: The Ice Cream Lectures - free lectures on the history and science of ice cream, at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. Tuesday, July 24, 7pm
American Taste: Black Pepper - one of our favorite teacher...
A month or so ago, we started a new section of the site called The Library. Like most libraries, it's filled with books, but ours are virtual, and they're all recommended by our teachers about the topics they teach.
Here are a few of our favorites to get you started this summer:
Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop by Steven Cresswell
Why you should read it: The cover art is questionable but the rec...
This is a course preview for A Million and One Soy Sauces, which happens tomorrow (Thursday!). Turns out there's a lot more than just Kikkoman - and we'll be working our way across Asia to see what exactly each is for. Many dumplings and veggies will be consumed in the process.
This post is about the worst kind of soy sauce. The best is a secret for the class!
Back in the olden days, everyone made soy sauce pretty...
MSG is our free monthly lecture series all about the history and science of food. Up this month: ice cream.
Sarah Lohman of Four Pounds Flour will unearth the stories behind our favorite ice cream treats and share some of history's wildest bygone flavors--that may be due for a revival. By the end of the night, you'll be able to answer questions like: which came first, chocolate or vanilla? The ice cream sand...
When you go to Chinatown, you're morally obligated to buy strange and unfamiliar goods, then decipher (and eat) them back home. It's Chinatown Roulette!
Ended up spending a lot of time in Chinatown shopping for my Thai Cooking Workshop this weekend, and it was about ten billion °F out there, so we needed some drinks.
This is in millions of degrees
First up was 100plus Lemon-Lime from Asia Market Corp.
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In case you didn't know, books are empirically cool.* Scientific fact.
Which is why The Sketchbook Project is automatically awesome -- it's a collection of thousands of books, all made by people just like your fine self. For $25, the folks at Art House Co-op will send you a blank sketchbook. Fill its pages with whatever you want, send it back to The Sketchbook Project, and next summer, your book will take an ...
A couple weeks ago, we started a new section of the site called The Library. Like most libraries, it's filled with books, but ours are virtual, and they're all recommended by our teachers about the topics they teach.
Here are a few of our favorites to get you started this summer:
The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard
Why you should read it: Easy to follow instruc...
The 4th is on a Wednesday this year, which, besides making for a very awkward work week, means that next Tuesday's Society for the Advancement of Social Studies meeting is basically on a weekend. Get ready for Independence Day by learning a few things about good old America.
We'll cover the history of political parties in the States, give you a timely refresher on the Revolution, and a history of crazy Ameri...
Architecture is fun! Because it's inherently interesting and also because you can impress your friends by casually dropping things like "oh, what a nice example of an Ionic column," so let's get a-learning.
Here's a really short version: our friends the Greeks and Romans generally built temples in three "orders" - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
These styles are characterized, among other things, by the t...
