New Old Time

Fresh Siberian chives with purple flowers and wild garlic leaves overflowing on a Nordic cottage kitchen

The Forest Pantry: Wild Plants, Foraging, and t...

In Scandinavia, the knowledge of wild plants is a common inheritance — protected by allemannsretten and accumulated over centuries. Emil Korsmo’s 1913 Allium charts documented the wild garlic and Siberian...

The Forest Pantry: Wild Plants, Foraging, and t...

In Scandinavia, the knowledge of wild plants is a common inheritance — protected by allemannsretten and accumulated over centuries. Emil Korsmo’s 1913 Allium charts documented the wild garlic and Siberian...

Two massive rock formations rising from a tropical river valley in Colombia surrounded by dense jungle and calm green water

The Landscape and the Legend: Carmelo Fernández...

In 1850, Carmelo Fernández painted the Furatena Strait as part of Colombia’s first scientific expedition. The landscape he documented was saturated with Muisca legend — the myth of Fura and...

The Landscape and the Legend: Carmelo Fernández...

In 1850, Carmelo Fernández painted the Furatena Strait as part of Colombia’s first scientific expedition. The landscape he documented was saturated with Muisca legend — the myth of Fura and...

Blue white and purple hyacinth plants in terracotta pots inside a Victorian greenhouse with soft light through glass panes

The de Bry Dynasty: Frankfurt’s Greatest Publis...

In 1611, Johann Theodor de Bry published the Florilegium Novum — one of the earliest floral pattern books, born at the intersection of Frankfurt’s greatest publishing dynasty and the Dutch...

The de Bry Dynasty: Frankfurt’s Greatest Publis...

In 1611, Johann Theodor de Bry published the Florilegium Novum — one of the earliest floral pattern books, born at the intersection of Frankfurt’s greatest publishing dynasty and the Dutch...

Atlantic salmon leaping from a cold clear Scandinavian river surrounded by pine forest in golden summer light

The Fish That Built the North: Atlantic Salmon,...

The history of Scandinavia is, in large part, a history of fish. Atlantic salmon and Atlantic cod defined Nordic civilization for centuries — and in 1939, Max Richter documented them...

The Fish That Built the North: Atlantic Salmon,...

The history of Scandinavia is, in large part, a history of fish. Atlantic salmon and Atlantic cod defined Nordic civilization for centuries — and in 1939, Max Richter documented them...

New York City skyline seen from the water with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground at golden hour

The Urban Traveler's New York: A City Written i...

New York rewards the traveler who reads it carefully — the Art Déco geometry of the Chrysler Building, the green exhale of Central Park, the layered culture of Broadway and...

The Urban Traveler's New York: A City Written i...

New York rewards the traveler who reads it carefully — the Art Déco geometry of the Chrysler Building, the green exhale of Central Park, the layered culture of Broadway and...

Herbalist's home laboratory in process — stone mortar, open seed jar, steaming kettle, macerating herbs in glass jar, measuring spoons and beaker on wooden table, dried flowers hanging above

The Meadow as Pharmacy: Medicinal Plants of Cen...

Before pharmaceuticals, the meadow was the pharmacy. Across Central Europe, generations of herbalists and apothecaries read the landscape as a catalog of remedies — dandelion, yarrow, wormwood, coltsfoot. The Polish...

The Meadow as Pharmacy: Medicinal Plants of Cen...

Before pharmaceuticals, the meadow was the pharmacy. Across Central Europe, generations of herbalists and apothecaries read the landscape as a catalog of remedies — dandelion, yarrow, wormwood, coltsfoot. The Polish...