Calling "shotgun" to secure the front seat before a car long journey is about as satisfying as it gets.But the little-known story of how we came to use the phrase is fascinating, and more than 160 years old.In the Wild West-era of the US, around 1850, stagecoach drivers used to ride with a "shotgun guard" offering him protection from bandits and Native Indians.Here's how the dangerous, but lucrative, job became a popular everyday idiom. Read More...
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Claudia Romeo: We're in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, and we're about to visit Bordier, a traditional maison du beurre, or butter house. When you picture butter, you probably think of a yellow block in a plastic bag. Well, not here. Here, butter is done artisanally. Everything is churned, kneaded, and shaped by hand. And I can't wait to see that. Let's go.
In February, we met with Jean-Yves Bordier, son and grandson of butter and cheese makers, who brought back to France the 19th-century technique of malaxage, using this big wooden wheel to knead the butter. Read More...
Redeem now Jane Fonda has revealed that she and Michael Jackson once skinny-dipped together in the 1980s. "It was a beautiful, moonlit night," she told Andy Cohen, adding that it had been Jackson's idea. She then joked that "he knew he was going to die young and that I would talk about him being naked." Jane Fonda has revealed that she and Michael Jackson once saw each other naked after the pair decided to go skinny-dipping together. Read More...
