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Food
Table Steaks
French travel writer Pierre-Jean Grosley toured Georgian London just in time to witness a culinary revolution: the sandwich.
by Pierre-Jean Grosley 1718-1785
Rudyard Kipling
‘Kings in Our Own Right’
Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.
by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
Classical History
Speech Therapy
Demosthenes was about sixteen when he decided he wanted to be a lawyer, but he was the most unpromising advocate imaginable.
by Plutarch ?46-120
‘Macedonia Is Too Small for Thee’
Plutarch tells us how Alexander the Great came to bond with Bucephalus, the mighty stallion that bore him to so many victories.
Poets and Poetry
Nature’s Harmony
William Wordsworth looks back on a life of disappointments and regrets, and finds in them reasons to be thankful.
by William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Music and Musicians
Mozart’s Genius
An amateur composer once asked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart how he thought of his lovely music and — for one performance only — the maestro told him.
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
