The history of ridiculously expensive pineapples in Europe, and an 18th century recipe for delicious pineapple tarts

The complexity of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and a two thousand year old recipe for fresh cheese that he might have enjoyed

How to survive a medieval winter, and a 14th century recipe for rich and hearty wheat berry porridge

The origins and evolution of beef stroganoff, and a 19th century recipe that I highly recommend

The history of gnocchi being made from everything from cheese to cake to truffles to potatoes

The Hunger Winter of the Netherlands at the end of World War II, and a recipe from the famine that includes tulip bulbs

How people have gotten, treated, and lived with gout throughout history, and an 18th century venison recipe that is laden with gout-inducing ingredients

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

Food, rationing, and hunger in Germany during WWII, and a recipe for a casserole from a German magazine early on in the war

The foods served at lavish ancient Roman feasts and a recipe from the 2nd century BC for an early form of cheesecake

The history of Election Day as a major holiday in Hartford, Connecticut, and a scaled down 18th century recipe of any Election Day table: election cake

The origins of the croissant, from Viennese kipferl to the modern flaky pastry, and a mid-19th century recipe for a bread-like version