Sunday Links

This is a good story: Muscle Shoals Studio: A History Of The Soul Of America  Via Blort

Attention K-Mart Shoppers : Re-experience the in-store music of K-Mart in the late 80s and early 90s. Or not. Via PfRC

 À la Mère de Famille, the Oldest Chocolate Shop in Paris I visited this lovely shop many years ago and reached for a box of chocolates I wanted. I was severely chastised by a very stern shop person who told me I was not allowed to touch the merchandise. I half expected her to rap my knuckles.

Nugrybauti: In Lithuania, going astray while picking mushrooms is such a common experience that it has its own word.

Looking to get away from it all? Lovely Sea Cabins Leinesfjord, Norway 

Will There Ever Be New Colors That We Can See?

Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul Garden Is Still Thriving—Six Decades after Her Death

Dress inspired by Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth 

Ordeal of Rice: Suspects in Ancient India Forced to Chew Rice to Determine Their Guilt: the efficacy of this method has actually been proven, with the science behind it explained.

Zola's Photos of Early Edwardian Life  Via Blort

16 Poet Biopics, Ranked

Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook  John McMurtrie on bridging generations with a French Onion Soup recipe.

When Knights Fought Snails The snails littering the margins of illuminated 13th-century manuscripts were also fearsome foes.

TimesMachine: Work Plan for the Working Mother 1957

“O Uommibatto”: How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat  Via TMN

This gut doctor begs every American to throw out this vegetable now  A journey through internet garbage. Via PfRC

How Many Children Should You Have?  Via Miss C

I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled: I assumed he was looking for a wife of taste and sophistication, who was a dead ringer for Tippi Hedren; instead he wanted to marry a curtain-wearing religious fanatic who shouts every word she says.

Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island 

The Woman In the Iron Coffin

Canal and river boat holidays in Europe: I've had my eye on a Canal du Midi boat trip for 10 years. I'd better hurry up if I ever plan to do it.

Have you heard the one about the short-sighted recruit? A Victorian joke book Via

How to Move a Masterpiece? If It’s This Big, Very Carefully