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Holiday Gift Guide: A Food Book for Everyone On Your List

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Major Moments in U.S. Food Law

Smithsonian magazine's 2010 Notable Books for Children.

Smithsonian’s 2010 Notable Books for Children

In our annual tradition, we present some of the best that children’s literature has to offer this year

Cooking With the Stars: Celebrity Cookbooks

Smithsonian magazine's top 10 articles of 2010.

Our Top 10 Stories of 2010

From scientific mysteries to secrets from the Revolutionary War, here are the most-read stories on Smithsonian.com this year

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Inviting Writing: First Tastes

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Lussekatter and Cuccia for St. Lucy’s Day

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Five Ways to Eat Leeks

West Pier V, 2006, Fiona Tan.

Exploring the Video Art of Fiona Tan

Take a tour of the contemporary artist’s innovative work in a new exhibit at the Sackler Gallery

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Pass the Posset: The Medieval Eggnog

Why not try latkes with caviar this Hanukkah?

Unorthodox Potato Latkes for Hanukkah

Looking to reinvent the latke? Here are some alternatives to the old apple sauce and sour cream combo

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Inviting Writing: An Italian-American Grandma’s Cooking

Holiday Gift Guide: Crafty Ideas From Recycled Food Packaging

Alvino Rey may not be a household name today, but Rey's genre-busting fretwork in electric music's nascent years helped set the stage for modern rock.

Alvino Rey’s Musical Legacy

As the father of the electric guitar and grandfather of two members of Arcade Fire, Rey was a major influence on rock for decades

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When Zits Meant Food: Learning from Culinary Ephemera

Latino writer Martín Espada is one of many mentioned in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature who say Walt Whitman influenced them and consider him as a godfather.

What Defines Latino Literature?

In compiling the latest anthology in the Norton series, professor Ilan Stavans researched the themes explored by Latino authors

The Mazel Tov Cocktail is tinted blue by Blue Curaçao.

Eight Cocktails of Hanukkah

Look up “holiday cocktails” and most of what you will find, understandably enough, is geared toward Christmas

In 2008, Ted Gup was handed a battered suitcase by his mother; it contained conceled checks and old letters addressed to "B. Virdot". Thus began a search for the stories behind the letters.

A Yuletide Gift of Kindness

Ted Gup learns the astonishing secret about his grandfather’s generosity during the Great Depression

Many works by Alexis Rockman are "a portent of events to come," says curator Joanna Marsh. The artist's 2006 Hurricane and Sun suggests menacing weather.

Painter Alexis Rockman Pictures Tomorrow

There’s trouble ahead in the artist’s eerie yet riveting paintings, now the subject of a major exhibition

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