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
British cooks and cooking on the Western Front in World War I, and a 1914 army recipe for corned beef and potato pie
The history of biryani including Indian and Mughal influences, and a recipe from the 16th century
The First Battle of Bull Run and a recreation of what the spectators who picnicked there might have eaten
The possible origin stories of Kaiser Franz Joseph I’s favorite dessert, kaiserschmarrn, and a recipe for it from his lifetime
