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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

How to Keep Your Hands Warm, 1579

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (1565)
"Whosoever annoynts his feete or hands, with the grease of a Woolfe: he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes, or feete so annointed." 
Thomas Lupton, A Thousand Notable Things (1579)
Winter inventory checklist: Hot cocoa. Warm hat. Wolf grease.