"Blessed are the cheesemakers: University of Leeds acquires oldest surviving book about British cheese." (via the Guardian)
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Open Culture shared "the only color picture of Tolstoy, taken by photography pioneer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1908)."
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In 1891, Pellegrino Artusi helped forge a national cuisine with Scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene (Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well). (via Gastro Obscura)
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Author Daniel Schreiber picked his top 10 books about solitary living for the Guardian.