Hangover cures from the last 3,500 years, and a 10th century recipe from Baghdad for a curative lamb stew

Food in US schools post-1960s and an extremely nostalgic recipe for cheese pizza from 1988

Celebrating Christmas during the Great Depression, and a recipe for a less expensive Christmas pudding made with gelatin and chocolate

What a real Victorian sugar plum was, and a labor-intensive, days-long process of making some from a 19th century recipe

The 1826 Eggnog Riot at West Point and a 19th century recipe from the White House Cook Book

Food supplies and cooking in the Japanese incarceration camps during WWII, and a recipe for tuna noodle casserole from one of the camps’ newspapers

Feasting with Alexander the Great and an ancient Roman recipe for a complex sauce for poultry using ingredients that Alexander would have had

Sarah Josepha Hale’s decades-long campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, and a cranberry tart recipe from her magazine in 1866

Bomb shelters and the Tube during the Blitz in WWII, and ration-friendly recipes for soup and honey biscuits from the period