“To smother a Fowl in Oysters,” advises the first American cookbook author Amelia Simmons, “fill the bird…
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“Love’s oven is warm” Emily Dickinson wrote to her friend Sarah Tuckerman, on a note…
Like many eighteenth-century recipes, Benjamin Franklin’s instructions for making apple pudding don’t offer a lot of…
“A Full Belly is the Mother of all Evil,” Benjamin Franklin counselled the readers of…
When Elizabeth David came home to Britain in 1946, after spending the war years in Egypt,…
The quality of the eating, without a doubt, could make or break a Parisian salon. Today’s…
Here is a guest post I wrote for the wonderful history-of-medicine blog Nursing Clio
I am trying hard not to be faithful. I am trying to keep my options…
When Isadora Duncan’s mother was pregnant with the dancer, she could eat only iced oysters and iced…
The problem of hunger rarely plays a significant role in food blogs. The genre inclines toward fantasies of…