Debunking the myth that people in the Middle Ages didn’t drink water, and a medieval recipe for barley water

The food and ceremonious dining of Kublai Khan, and a recipe written for him for invigorating mastic stew with lamb

The origins and spread of SPAM, and a recipe from a marketing campaign in 1951

The sad tale of Typhoid Mary, and a recipe for peach ice cream, one of her specialties that may have contributed to the spread of typhoid fever

The views on food of major Stoic philosophers of the ancient Mediterranean, and a recipe for lentil soup that they may have enjoyed

Eating and cooking on US submarines in World War II, and two recipes from the 1945 Cook Book of the United States Navy

The extreme extravagance of gilded age feasts, and an 1877 recipe for a Gilded Age gelatin dessert

How spotted dick got its giggle-inducing name, its history as an economical dessert, and a recipe from 1854

The chuck wagons, food, and cooks of the golden age of cowboys and cattle drives, and recipes from 1896 for cowboy staples