Month: May 2014
S’mores: An Introduction
Three historical writings in three narrative modes. Each tells a story about one of the ingredients that make up a S’more.
Graham’s Crackers Crumble
13. Wheat-Meal Bread-Graham Bread.
“In every cook-book I have examined, and in all the medico-dietetical works I have consulted, I find saleratus or pearlash, and salt always in the recipe for making what those books call brown, dyspepsia, or …
Hershey’s Tropical Bar
Before Einstein and Oppenheimer started working with uranium on the Manhattanville project in 1939, the U.S. government had already approached a different company with a different chemical challenge. In 1937, Captain Paul P. Logan, of the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, …
The Marshmallow Test
"T is frowning. He places his elbows on the desk, and puts his wrists together and rests his chin in his palms." Historical fiction.
