Celery Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board". Celery makes a minor appearance in colonial American gardens; its culinary limitations are reflected in the observation by the author of "A Treatise on Gardening, by a Citizen of Virginia" that it is "one of the species of parsley." Its first extended treatment in print was in Bernard M'Mahon's "American Gardener's Calendar" (1806). After the mid-19th century, continued selections for refined crisp texture and taste brought celery to American tables, where it was served
Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family Portrait of a Woman, possibly a member of the Beresteyn family is a 1632 portrait painting by Rembrandt. It shows a woman with an unusually large millstone collar, pendant to "Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family". It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rembrandt created this painting as a pendant to the MET's portrait of a man, probably as a wedding pendant. Only a few pairs of pendant portraits by Rembrandt have survived. This pair came into the