It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas: mulled wassail, peppermint canes, and—my own personal favorite—warm, sweet gingerbread. Now’s the season where you can bake soft gingerbread squares in hot lemon sauce or buy packaged gingerbread men. Read more... ““Hansel and Gretel” and December’s Candy Houses”
Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Many Pivots of the 1970s
The 1970s is a decade characterized by many historians as a “pivot of change” for America politically, economically, and socially. There are few places that better show this drastic change in U.S. values and societal attitudes than the television programing of the 70s. Read more... “The Many Pivots of the 1970s”