Grub

Today in 1896 Fannie Farmer publishes her first culinary effort, The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, and on this date in 1901 Alferd Packer is released from prison in Colorado after serving 18 years for cannibalism. Dark-humored cartoonist Charles Addams, whose 1912 birthday we mark today, might have appreciated the coincidence.

The Food Ahead road sign symbol on the Dark T-Shirt above — all variations on wares and wears here — can be sighted in the Have Geek, Will Travel department of the expansive CafePress.com Ultra Geek Store, whose work I featured on November 24th.

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