I was about to buy An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds when a quote-spewing review caught my eye:
"In the mid-1970s it was found that orthodox Hindus who had been quite healthy on a vegan diet in their native India began to suffer from a high incidence of megaloblastic anemia after living for some time in England consuming the same diet. The cause was traced to vitamin B-12 deficiency, which in India was prevented by insect...
New classes open for registration? Yep, we've got 'em. Are they about The Triange Waist Factory fire and surviving in post-apocalyptic New York? You bet they are.
Reupholstering, low-tech screenprinting, a lecture about everything from hieroglyphics to perfume, and everything else in the world awaits you over on our courses page.
The first offical meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies will convene on Monday, September 26, at 7pm at Pete’s Candy Store. Be there!
What's on the docket?
Byzantium to Bummerville: Over 500 years of history artfully boiled down into a delicious and easily digested, condensed-soup of an overview. Learn the major causes of the Crusades, what went down in Jerusalem, and how these medieval...
In reality, all of the hot sauces we made a few weeks back were just a diversion from our main work of the day: to make awesome homemade ketchup. What we learned and what we did all follows below:
RULES ABOUT KETCHUP (also, ketchup rules.)
1) You're not making Heinz 57. I'm one of those people who doesn't like organic ketchup because it tastes too healthy and not like ketchup at all. And really, you have to think of this as an entirely...
* aka S.A.S.S, aka home of the tagline "All the history you knew but forgot, and all the booze you need to forget it again."
Not to get all press releasy on you, but we're super excited to announce an awesome new thing that we are helping to release into the world: The Society for the Advancement of Social Studies.
What is S.A.S.S.?
S.A.S.S. is a new monthly lecture series at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. Every third Monday of the...
