Arts & Culture

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Hawaiian Food -- Beyond the Tiki Torches

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The Other Black Gold

Despite living in multiple cities throughout the decades, this sports fan can't root against his home team.

Last Fan Standing

Why I'll always root for the home team

A Japanese folk tale is immortalized in artwork, such as this 19th-century fan painting by Kawanabe Kyosai.

What's Up

Frontier photography, Japanese folk tales, indigenous art and more

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Letters

Readers Respond to the July Issue

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Food Tattoos

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Is a Sugar Shortage Looming?

At last count, Velveteria, the Museum of Velvet Paintings has nearly 2,500 velvet paintings.

Museums With Their Own Niche

Subjects as wide-ranging as lunchboxes, roller skating, and Bigfoot have museums dedicated solely to their study and appreciation

Figs

Five Ways to Eat Fresh Figs

Fresh figs are wonderful! They're in season in many places right now, so enjoy them while you can

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Can Eating Healthy Be Bad for Your Health?

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Breadfruit, the Holy Grail of Grocery Shopping

Lester Young electrified the jazz world with his dexterity and imagination.

Lester Young Turns 100

Billie Holiday’s favorite musician, jazz great Lester “Prez” Young brought a hip, freewheeling sensibility to his saxophone playing

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Cooking with the Season

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Ramadan—A Moveable Fast

According to The Breadfruit Institute at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, breadfruit grows in almost 90 countries.

Cooking With Breadfruit

The tropical fruit is a daily food staple in cultures where the tree grows, including Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America

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Fresh Figs, and Bugs?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson is considered by many to be the quintessential drug-induced book of the 1970s.

Great Road Trips in American Literature

From Twain to Kerouac to Bryson, writers have found inspiration in hitting the road and traveling the United States

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Ask Smithsonian 2017

Is it Safe to Eat Off Vintage Plates?

Answers for the flea market picker

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Beach Reading for Food Nerds

The diamond’s current setting, once described by Evalyn Walsh McLean as a “frame of diamonds,” was originally created by Pierre Cartier and has remained largely unchanged since the early 1900s.

A New Chapter in the Hope Diamond’s History

The National Museum of Natural History’s most famous gem gets a modern update

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