In 1868, Charles Dickens sits down opposite Kate, a twelve-year-old American girl, on a New England train. She is sassy and tells the most famous man of the age that she skips the boring bits in his ...

Carrots are the enigma of the crisper: They can go weeks in the fridge without showing a blemish, but expose them to heat (or, shudder, a honey glaze) and they turn to sweet, sticky mush. But Sabrina ...