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Here’s the full sized version of the magazine photo by Annie Leibovitz of these incredible satyrs half-way through their transformation. 

Good cooks carry with them secrets locked away in the arcane languages of foods, herbs and spices. They study their alchemical properties, creating potent combinations that not only arouse our sense of taste, but offer well being and longevity. In India, the 5,000 year old Ayurvedic systems of cuisine promise the knowledge for prolonging a

Let’s begin with a memory: I am nine or ten years old, shivering with terror in my bed at night. A violent storm rattles the windows, the lightening sharp and sizzling, thunder a chest–rattling roar in the darkness. Skeletal branches frantically lash the panes. I have read too much Beowulf for my own good, and

  Punto in Aria (“stitch in the air”) is one of the most beautiful forms of needle-made lace. It is a elaboration of the Italian Reticella, another form of needle lace where threads were removed from the ground of the fabric and then lace was worked in the opening provided by the missing threads. But

Consider Alabama Chanin a sort of American answer to William Morris’ Arts and Craft movement, mixed with the surge of Green Eco-friendly attention to fabrics and clothing. It is hard to know which excites me more — as a consumer oh so lusting after their exquisite one of a kind clothing, all hand-stitched and richly embroidered, or

I am absolutely engrossed in Hoshruba, The Land of the Tilism by Muhammad Husain Jah, and translated from the Urdu by author Musharaf Ali Farooqi. The tale is rich in sorcerers and tricksters — both male and female — giants and demons, outrageous acts of magic, magical devices, villainous rulers, plucky princesses, hapless princes, dazzling splendor and

  Have a look at Spainish illustrator Beatriz Martin Vidal’s gorgeous artwork. It features children prominently — and their effortless interaction with the natural world. The series “Birdchildren” reveals children in various states of flying, dreaming of birds, and half-winged as they hover between the two worlds. She also has  a series of “Fairy Tale”