Salsify Soup and Life-Everlasting: A Kentucky Cookbook

The handwritten cookbook that led me to a 19th-century crime

Hi all! I hope you’re well, and, at least in the US, starting to wind down (or gear up?) for the Thanksgiving break later this week.

I’m personally feeling extremely over the internet at the moment. While it’s been fun to watch Elon Musk step on more rakes than Sideshow Bob, it’s also a deeply disheartening reminder that the planet’s global social infras…