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...traditional answer by some of the best-known historians would be that once you run into the industrial revolution, authorities have no patience with people not working. They felt they had to instill work discipline into the population. So, for example, by the 18th or 19th century, more and more festivities in northern Europe, especially, had been banned. You were just supposed to work six days a week, and then sit silently or in church. The other reason, which I argue, is that in fact, these kind of festivities often became dangerous from the point of view of elites...
...students will open the academy in January with 10 weeks in New York City, concentrating on intensive Italian language instruction and Italian cuisine techniques. The program then moves to the countryside outside Parma, where students spend nine weeks studying regional cuisine with Michelin-rated chefs at the 18th century Palazzo Ducale in Colorno. This bacchanal of typical products and wines, including visits to artisan producers and vineyards, is followed by a nine-week apprenticeship in a prestigious Italian restaurant and a finale in New York City for classes in kitchen management and final exams. Then it's buon appetito...
...students will open the academy in January with 10 weeks in New York City, concentrating on intensive Italian language instruction and Italian cuisine techniques. The program then moves to the countryside outside Parma, where students spend nine weeks studying regional cuisine with Michelin-rated chefs at the 18th century Palazzo Ducale in Colorno. This bacchanal of typical products and wines, including visits to artisan producers and vineyards, is followed by a nine-week apprenticeship in a prestigious Italian restaurant and a finale in New York City for classes in kitchen management and final exams. Then it's buon appetito...
...FRANCE In 18th century Paris, runners pulled vinaigrettes-proto-rickshaws named after the wheelbarrows used to bear vinegar. This 1707 painting by Claude Gillot, Les Deux Carrosses, shows two early examples...
...cultures have ignored the human imperative to celebrate. When 18th and 19th century European explorers fanned out across the globe, they found colorful and ecstatic festivities everywhere--among the hunter-gatherers of Australia and the North American plains, the horticulturists of Polynesia, the village peoples of India. Recently discovered cave art from England shows what the archaeologists call "conga lines" of female dancers from at least 10,000 years...