Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Electric blankets. They lie right on top of the body for hours at a time. It's a good idea to warm the bed and then unplug the blanket before going to sleep -- or better still, get a quilt instead...
AMISH: THE ART OF THE QUILT by Robert Hughes (Knopf/Callaway; $100). These spare yet sumptuous squares reflect the cardinal virtues of their Amish makers: simplicity and practicality. Made between 1870 and 1950 in Lancaster County, Pa., they foreshadowed the geometric art of the '60s and the minimalism that followed. And unlike those paintings, they also keep you warm at night...
There is not a wide audience for what is usually called Pennsylvania Dutch food, which is actually a kind of Americanized German cuisine I remember from childhood as featuring at least three starches with every overcooked piece of meat. But in Cooking from Quilt Country by Marcia Adams (Potter; $24.95), this excessively hearty cuisine gets lightened up. The recipes from Amish and Mennonite families in Indiana are less daunting to the cholesterol conscious. But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey + concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good...
While France and Britain developed centralized monarchies in the late Middle Ages, the German empire remained a crazy quilt of kingdoms, duchies, bishoprics, free cities and other flotsam. In the late 13th century, the imperial crown came into the hands of a Swiss family named Habsburg, but the Habsburgs' only real power and wealth came from their family possessions in Austria and Bohemia; the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a concept that exercised a magic attraction in the Middle Ages, had about as much authority as the United Nations has today...
...eulogized AIDS victim Ryan White, saying there were "too many patches in the quilt." That quilt symbolized his own unwillingness, while President, to do or say much about the disease...