I am a red velvet cake connoisseur. While most kids gravitated towards chocolate or and ice cream cake for their birthdays, I ...

with Recipes and Lore, the cocktail we’re familiar with today is essentially a Whiskey Cocktail, an early 19th-century creation composed of the same ingredients. By the mid 1800s, bartenders ...

The next time you're craving apple pie, skip the grocery store and head to the farmers market! You'll be much more likely to find amazing heritage apples that are ideal for baking. Here are 13 to seek ...

Election cakes were so popular in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1800s that they were dubbed 'Hartford Election Cakes.' The ...

This basic recipe for Italian Macaroni appears in dozens of community cookbooks in our collection from Rural America (Canada too) - throughout the 1800s ... Georgia shatters early voting records ...

Made with tomatoes, bread, butter, and brown sugar, tomato pudding is inexplicably divine. Here's why the dish is always on ...

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Author Tasha Marikkar captures Sri Lankan food’s individuality in her cookbook, Jayaflava: A Celebration of Food, Flavour, ...

Mary Poppins came out in 1964, long after women got the right to vote both in the U.K. and the U.S., but Mrs. Banks embodies many of the Victorian arguments against women’s suffrage ...

If you can dream it, we can cheese it,” is a motto you’ll hear around Winchester, Kentucky, which claims to be the birthplace ...

Historically a place where monarchs and aristocrats would escape the winter in favour of warm Mediterranean climes, this southern French city is at its best in the off season.