Food To Cure What Ails You: When Cookbooks Treated Meals As Medicine

Browse through some turn-of-the-century American cookbooks, and it's obvious that popular tastes have changed (such as the presence of fried cornmeal mush and the absence of cilantro). But more striking than the shift in flavors and ingredients is the focus on feeding those who are sick — or, to use the parlance of the time, "cooking for invalids."

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Read Three Articles: 5-31-17 **Environment Edition**

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Cuts to North Carolina emissions testing raise environmental concerns

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Brazil, home of Amazon, rolls back environmental protection

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Will Iran's next president care enough to put the environment first

Wednesday Feel Goods!

19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading

For the best summer reads, we turned to two authors who own independent bookstores and their book-loving staff. Louise Erdrich, who is the author of 15 novels, including “Roundhouse” and “LaRose,” along with nonfiction and poetry, owns Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, while Emma Straub, whose novels include “Modern Lovers” and the “Vacationers,” recently opened Books are Magic with her husband in Brooklyn

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