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A newly available memoir reveals a tender, private side of the global celebrity Kayla Randall – Digital Editor, Museums Before she was a legend, Josephine Baker was a little girl from Missouri who loved to make funny faces. Teachers chided her for this habit; Baker paid them little heed. “Our faces aren’t made to sleep,” she later said.  Baker’s lifeContinue reading “Josephine Baker’s Memoir Is Now Being Published for the First Time in English”

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the enslaved youth who made it a commercial success Vanilla producer Bertrand Côme displays bound and dried vanilla beans for sale at his Réunion farm. The beans generally grow as long as 6 to 11 inches.William Daniels JayContinue reading “The Bittersweet Beginnings of Vanilla Cultivation Can Be Traced Back to the Far-Flung Isle of Réunion”