'What the Great Ate' mixes food and fame for tasty read
Dining with the stars: It's often sophisticated and elegant, but don't be surprised if there's a rat on your plate.
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Expansion Gives New Life to Peabody Collection
Millions of items moved to more accessible space In the room that contains what Peabody Museum's Shae Trewin calls "the history of electricity," shelves are stocked with elaborate machines that 19th-century scientists used to unlock the mysteries of electrical currents.
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Dining with the stars
It's often sophisticated and elegant, but don't be surprised if there's a rat on your plate These anecdotes are from a new book, "What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame" (Three Rivers Press, $14), by brothers Matthew and Mark Jacob. Matthew Jacob works for a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.; his brother, Mark, is a deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune. The ...
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Endpapers: Summer Reading
What's hot this season in books: the Flyer takes a look. by Hannah Sayle [image-1] The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest By Stieg Larsson Knopf, 563 pp., $27.95 The final installment of Stieg Larsson's trilogy brings an international sensation to its thrilling, bittersweet dénouement. Larsson died of a heart attack shortly after finishing the first trio of novels, and despite rumors of a half ...
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