Three weeks vacation explains the inactivity on this blog. Mostly (except for cooking for a stream of guests), it was a sabbatical from getting worked up about food, indulging myself instead, on ...

In the many decades since the band split in 1970, their music has remained as popular as ever, although Beatles royalties varied, with Lennon and McCartney having most of the songwriting credits. All ...

Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...