Breakfast Links: Week of January 16, 2012

Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links. Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.

• "Salads to reach round the world" Extravagant 17th c food, where more was MORE: http://bit.ly/xBq6oG

• Female singer's 1,100-year-old tomb unearthed in Egypt's Valley of the Kings http://mirr.im/zYGwHG

• The Queen’s life in postcards: http://on.ft.com/zwk0tL

• Brilliant. From 1891, a brief guide to the art of "Eye Flirtation" http://bit.ly/xsL6xe

• By 1800, almost 40% of English brides came to the altar pregnant: http://gu.com/p/34p5x/tw

• The beautiful blues & greens of John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 - http://bit.ly/wyHEqr

• Comparing the Downton Abbey household with those of American counterparts like the Du Ponts at Winterthur: http://delonline.us/zfkqw9

• Mary Anderson, forgotten inventor of a very important device: http://is.gd/4SKFPo

• In 18th c London, the King licensed keys to the rich for private access to Hyde Park http://bit.ly/zJRUz2

• A beautiful, snowy Paris in 1948: http://bit.ly/wx3bML

• 100 yrs ago, Captain Scott reached the S.Pole, never to return: his heartbreaking last letter to his wife: http://bit.ly/gvYrXW

• The Duchess of Lauderdale's teapot at Ham House reveals one of its secrets: http://bit.ly/xPxbhr

• The history of a fascinating piece of American culture: the Chinese food takeout box: http://nyti.ms/yDeNGX

• Born this week: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 - His 13 year-old bride & the other women in his life - http://bit.ly/9rpzHu

• Livery:Preserving the Distinction of Rank http://wp.me/pGJsu-20B

• Embroidered Emile Pingat Evening Cape, circa 1891 http://bit.ly/zX2ThX

• How we remember Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne (born this week in 1882): with illustrations by EH Shepard: http://bit.ly/kAf8Jd

• The Way the Ladies Ride: On the unusual riding habits of medieval and Renaissance women http://bit.ly/w7DhJq

• Fabulous, yet poignant: evening gloves with musical symbols made on World War II's outbreak http://bit.ly/yfQ1wP