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

What it was like to travel on the Orient Express and the luxurious food that was served on board

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

What cooking and eating was like on the Oregon Trail (it was rough), and a 19th century recipe for johnny cakes

Medieval inns, taverns, and alehouses and a medieval meat stew that could have been served at them

The history of waffles and a recipe for waffles with butter and wine sauce from 1714

The real-life story of Chef Boyardee and a likely recipe for his original spaghetti with meat sauce

What it was like on Ellis Island in the early 20th century, and two recipes for dishes that appeared on an Ellis Island menu in 1920

What it was like at a feast in the late Sengoku period (around 1600), and two dishes that would have been fit for the meal of a shogun

Chocolate’s development after its arrival in Europe, and an 18th century recipe for a delicious spiced hot chocolate

How Michelin started with tires and ended up giving out the most prestigious awards in the culinary world, and a recipe from 1932 that earned a Michelin star

What going to the Colosseum was like, from acquiring a ticket to the schedule of the day, and an ancient recipe for stuffed dates that you could have snacked on

The history and evolution of hot wings, and a 19th century recipe for a spicy wing recipe with mustard and mushroom ketchup

Mealtime etiquette in the Ottoman Empire, and a 19th century recipe for pilaf that would have been served as the last course

Ship kitchens and the cooks who manned them, and a recipe for a hearty stew thickened with hardtack (clack clack)

What you could tell about someone from their breakfast in Jane Austen’s England, and a recipe for bath buns as she might have eaten them for her first meal of the day

Variations of wienerschnitzel throughout history and its legendary origin stories, and a recipe for a 19th century version

The fake and true history of the potato chip and an early 19th century recipe for them

Special guest culinary historian Michael W. Twitty joins me to cook hoppin’ john, a dish that is said to bring good luck in the new year, and he shares the history of hoppin’ john and its roots in Africa and the enslaved population of early America

The history of different types of fermented fish sauce throughout the world and a sweet recipe using my homemade Roman garum