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Michelle Legro: Top Chef, Old Master Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius polymath, but at the heart of his work was a love of food and kitchen experiments.; Every City Has a Sex and an Age Is Paris a young man in love or London an charming orphan? We asked the internet the sex and age of their hometown or adopted city.; Two of Every Animal (and More) Theodore Roosevelt's huge bounty of game from his 1909 African safari filled the vaults of the Smithsonian museum.; The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee Balzac's coffee addiction was "a great power in my life. I have observed its effects on an epic scale."; Ethan Frome, or Whatever Edith Wharton's novella gets the mumblecore treatment.; Yale on the Lido Deck Is the Yale recruitment video the kind of thing that would have prompted the French Revolution?; Turn the Other Cheek The first rule of evangelical fight club? Tell everyone about evangelical fight club.; Psalm Pushers Publishing may be in trouble, but the Bible is one book that's always been in demand.