The twentieth century saw astounding changes in the American home and American food. The nineteenth-century housewife killed the chicken, plucked its feathers, and cleaned, cut, seasoned, and cooked the chicken on an open flame. By 1990 she went to a…
Glazed ceramic tiles have been used to decorate buildings since the days of the ancient Egyptians, but the history of modern tiles starts in sixteenth-century Britain, Spain, and Holland. At that time, overall repetitive designs inspired by Moorish motifs were…