Chugging Maple Sap

Instead of pouring maplsyrup on pancakes, South Koreans are drinking the straight sap

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Lent in the Fast Lane

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Mardi Gras, Po-Boys and Streetcar Strikes

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Inviting Writing: Doomed by Soup?

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Sprouting Seeds and Beans: The Gardener’s Gateway Drug

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Lightbulb Ban Means Reinventing the Easy-Bake Oven

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The Ice King Cometh: Frederic Tudor, Father of the Ice Industry

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Experiments in Cooking: Salmon Poached in the Dishwasher

Marquee languages definitely serve their purposes. But when you learn a minority language, like Romansh or Sioux, you become a member of a select group.

Spoken Like a Native

Learning a minority language opens doors—and hearts

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

Paul Gauguin's Tahitian mistress Tehamana modeled for many of his South Seas works, including the lush Te Nave Nave Fenua (The Delightful Land), 1892.

Gauguin’s Bid for Glory

Of all the images created by the artist Paul Gauguin, none was more striking than the one he crafted for himself

Sculptor Alexander Calder is perhaps best known as the inventor of the mobile. View Portrait of the Arist as a Young Man and more at the Portrait Gallery.

What’s Up

Gene Krupa "stole Benny [Goodman]'s thunder," says Kennith Kimery, executive producer of the SMithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. "In the end that cost him his job."

Gene Krupa: a Drummer with Star Power

Rising to fame with the Benny Goodman band, Gene Krupa was the first superstar drummer

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, better known as Semiconductor, are developing a multimedia piece about volcanologists.

Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration

The British performance artists discuss how their research on volcanoes will inform their newest works

Scavenger hunts with mobile devices are a hit with teens.

Collaborations

"You didn't learn your history, you lived it," says Cornelia Bailey, who grew up on Sapelo.

Holding on to Gullah Culture

A Smithsonian curator visits a Georgia island to find stories of a shrinking community that has clung to its African traditions

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Inviting Writing: The Parents or the Date?

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How to Make the Pies From Waitress and Other Movie-Inspired Meals

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Birthday Cake for Mother Ann, Leader of the Shakers

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Food in the Films of Charlie Chaplin

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