Trade, Trust and Madeira
An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…
Read moreThe Wonder of Christmas Food Past
It seems almost impossible to believe now. The first supermarket I ever encountered was Sainsbury’s in Coventry, England in 1966 when I was in my early 20s. Although by…
Read more“Plain and Simple:” The Ideal Diet for a Child According to John Locke
“As for [the child’s] diet, it ought to be very plain and simple,” said the philosopher and political theorist John Locke in 1693 in his Thoughts Concerning Education. Bread, bread,…
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