Articles: biography

Patience Gray

The Life of Patience Gray: Gathering Honey from a Weed

Iconoclastic food writer, forager, and force of nature Patience Gray always found the good in the simple.
 In Fasting and Feasting, Gray’s biographer Adam Federman discovers that…

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man who hated work but loved labor

The Man Who Loved Labor And Hated Work

In response to one of the nation’s darkest labor-history chapters, Congress passed a law in 1894 making the first Monday of every September “Labor Day,” to pay…

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