The Saturday Evening Post articles from July 1996

The Saturday Evening Post archives from July 1996

Your slice of the pie - pizza! (includes recipes)
July 1, 1996... In 1889, Italian tavern owner Don Raffaele Esposito added a new item to his menu called "pizza," featuring tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil - ingredients the cook chose to celebrate the colors of the Italian flag. Little did Don Raffaele...

Giving the 'green' light to salads. (includes recipes)
July 1, 1996... When temperatures start to soar and appetites go on the wane, it's time to chill out at mealtime with cool, healthful salads. Summer's the right time for salads, when fresh garden produce and herbs provide the raw materials for the tastiest...

Exploring the world's largest children's museum. (Indianapolis, Indiana)
July 1, 1996... In April, My family and I visited the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. This turned out to be a very large building with five floors of things for kids to explore. The exhibits are meant to be interactive; you don't just look at them, but you...

Real men keep promises. (Promise Keepers religious group)
July 1, 1996... Call it a movement, an awakening, a revival, or a phenomenon. Whatever the handle, "We've got a tiger by the tail, and it's pulling us... we're not pulling it," says Randy Phillips, president of Promise Keepers, the burgeoning men's ministry...

Grime and punishment. (personal hygiene in the past)
July 1, 1996... Before we begin, I want to say something. I have no argument with the adage "cleanliness is next to godliness." I merely want to point out that in my early days (how early is none of your business), cleanliness was next to impossible. I'm...

Black beauty. (fiction)
July 1, 1996... The first place that I remember was a large, pleasant meadow with a pond. Shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water lilies grew at the deep end. There were six young colts in the meadow besides me. I used to run with them, and we had...

The art of the athlete. (Saturday Evening Post covers)
July 1, 1996... Athletes in action - striving to run faster, jump higher, throw farther than their opponents - bring to mind the lines of Longfellow: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us...

When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay.
July 1, 1996... If you belong to the landlubber group, always at sea when it comes to the meaning of maritime expressions, help is on the way. You'll find at least 250 colorful explanations in Olivia Isil's When A Loose Cannon Flogs A Dead Horse There The...

Learning, Walt's way. (Disney Institute)
July 1, 1996... Attending dedication-week activities at the Disney Institute near Orlando last spring, a Detroit engineer decided to shed his buttondown demeanor and get goofy. He and his wife signed up for classes in how to prepare romantic dinners for two,...