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

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

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 controversial (but brilliant?) naming of Baby Ruth candy bars, and a popular recipe from the 1940s for Baby Ruth cookies that appeared on the wrappers of the time

What happened when the Carpathia docked in New York with the 705 survivors of the Titanic, and an early 20th century recipe for a dessert served aboard the Carpathia the last day aboard the ship

The history of brownies from elf-like creatures to decadent chocolate baked good and a recipe from 1904

Rationing and food on the home front in the US during WWII, and a recipe for a mock steak made out of ground beef and Wheaties

The dramatic story of the Kellogg brothers and the original recipe for Corn Flakes

The horrific conditions in Civil War prisons, and a mock apple pie recipe from a Confederate cookbook

The sordid origins of the deep dish pizza, and original recipes from the 1940s

I chat with Brent Underwood, whose channel, Ghost Town Living, documents his efforts to bring the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo back to life, and make a whiskey cocktail that could have been served at one of the town’s saloons

The food of the California Gold Rush and an 1881 recipe for biscuits with salt pork milk gravy

The sometimes surprising and sometimes familiar aspects of saloons in the Old West, and a recipe for pork and beans from 1886

The history of barbecue and two 19th century recipes for barbecued pork and a vinegary sauce

The food for Allied troops before, during, and after D-Day, and recipes recreating the last meal before the landing

How food in space has evolved and a recipe from the 1960s featuring Tang

The history of food on airlines and three recipes for a full meal from the Golden Age of air travel