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What’s in a Restaurant Name?

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The Evolution of the Modern Kitchen

Tab soda cans

Inviting Writing: Addicted to Tab

A parent hopes an authentic Roman banquet will bring the Latin language alive for their son.

Ad Nauseam

Recreating a Roman banquet seemed like a good idea

With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas and evolving in what the scientist Roger Sperry called "a burstwise advance."

Ask Smithsonian 2017

What Defines a Meme?

Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve

See artist Preston Singletary's Raven Steals the Sun, 2008, at the American Indian's Heye Center in New York City until September 5.

What’s Up

Frederick Eugene Ives' photochromoscopy plates "are perhaps the first color photographs of San Francisco.

The 1906 San Francisco Quake in Color

Recently discovered photographs depict the aftermath of the devastating California earthquake in a new light

Sculptor Ousmane Sow creates pieces rooted in Africa and Europe.

A Larger-Than-Life Toussaint Louverture

The Haitian revolutionary joins the Smithsonian Museum of African Art’s collection

Alain Touwaide, a science historian in the botany department at the National Museum of Natural History, has devoted his career to unearthing lost knowledge.

What Secrets Do Ancient Medical Texts Hold?

The Smithsonian’s Alain Touwaide studies ancient books to identify medicines used thousands of years ago

Deciphering the universe is a "Grand Challenge." Shown here is Galaxy M100.

Synergies

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Letters

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Should You Keep an Emergency Food Stash?

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Eau d’Asparagus (or What’s Behind That Asparagus Effect?)

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It’s a Tomato! The Miracle of Life, Plant Edition

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Help the New York Public Library Digitize Its Menus

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Inviting Writing: Lost Foods

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Rabbit: The Other “Other White Meat”

Not the popular choice for Easter dinner…

The rabbit reminded the author of chicken, but more flavorful and tender.

Recipes for Rabbit Fricasse and Raspberry Fool

Learn how to make two dishes from 17th century English cookbooks

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. features a collection of recipe books offering a fascinating window into life during Shakespeare's era.

Food From the Age of Shakespeare

By using cookbooks from the 17th century, one intrepid writer attempts to recreate dishes the Bard himself would have eaten

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Five Ways To Eat Cadbury Crème Eggs

The crème de la crème of Easter sweets prepared in five unique ways

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