Thoughts on Carving from Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts

Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, published in 1949, offered men a blueprint for how to host in a masculine fashion. No frouffy dinner parties laden with more etiquette rules than food. “You won’t find doily tearoom fare here: no radish roses, …

Life Magazine Ads, 1960 (Election Year)

I have a handful of Life Magazines from between 1958 and 1968, and if the ads are any indication, Americans drink more in election years. Perhaps it’s to take the edge off from the stress of hoping your candidate wins, …