Ancient Greek sweets and desserts, from honey cakes to sesame treats, played a key role during festivals and in daily life.

Thomas Hardy’s final novel, Jude the Obscure (1895), was ahead of its time in more ways that one. Upon its publication, it ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia.

In the 6th century BCE, lawmaker Solon imposed strict controls on how olive groves should be treated. Cutting down trees ...

A break in Venice will deliver culture and history in spades. The Lagoon City is tightly packed with museums and galleries, ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...

Despite a ceaseless battle against government censors, he was celebrated as one of his country’s greatest auteurs, winning ...

Wine geeks will already have guessed what the wines were: madeira, the longest-lived wine of all, and one that, so usefully, ...

Cream cheese is practically made for bagels, but the spread is capable of so much more. Use up your leftover cream cheese in ...

But how long will Madeira, one of the great fortified wines, survive tourist development on this extraordinary Atlantic ...

Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891. HPB, as ...

The word epiphany literally means manifestation. But not exactly in the 21st-century use of it. Manifestation in this sense means “things that appear.” ...