Are Societies What They Eat? September 11, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
There is no question that food and drink change us. If you begin to drink two litres of coca-cola a day, instead of a litre of fizzy water or if you start chewing on cocoa leaves instead of making banana smoothies your family will quickly notice a difference. Here there is and can be no […]
Cabinet of Curiosities from Eighteenth-Century London February 14, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
One of the sheer joys of bizzarism is collecting disparate lists and just enjoying the sound of them or the look of them on the page. In this spirit Beachcombing offers today a collection of curiosities brought together in an eighteenth-century London coffee house. He has included perhaps one in fifteen of the marvels gathered there. […]
