
Tasting History is the cooking show for history lovers and the history show for food lovers.
From Ancient Babylon to WWII, this is the place to learn about history’s delicious and sometimes horrific foods and their stories.
Latest Episodes
The decline of food availability on the home front in World War 2 Japan, and a recipe for mock grilled eel from before things got truly dire
The disputed origins of the key lime pie, and one of the first recipes for it with graham cracker crust from 1933
The crimes and punishments of medieval pigs, and a 14th century recipe for marinated roast pork loin
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
Eating and cooking on US submarines in World War II, and two recipes from the 1945 Cook Book of the United States Navy