"By the second or third day that you’re homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirt
Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba
A newly revised edition of Richard Schweid's memorable account of the history and folklore of hot peppers and the hot sauce industry in the Cajun country of Louisiana. Includes some twenty-five recipe
Our relationship to the octopus dates back to prehistory, when the eight-armed animal was depicted on vases and found in stone carvings from ancient Greece. Now we appreciate them for their abilities
"By the second or third day that you’re homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirt
Richard Schweid examines the eel in all its aspects: from its natural history to its past and present market value; its presence and meanings in both art and literature; and its current threatened st
Skittering figures of urban legendand a ubiquitous realitycockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of
