The mere words Moosewood Cookbook feel like a time portal back to the ’70s, the age of long-haired hippies in…

There’s a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, but one thing is absolutely clear: nobody’s taking any culinary…

It’s been quite a while since our last installment of Fun Fact Friday! Why? Because finding and typing up fun facts…

A plant biologist and an art historian walk into a museum. They stand in front of a 17th-century Flemish still-life…

If you have any interest in food history at all, you’ve probably come across the Food Timeline, an extraordinary…

Here’s a fun fact for you all: if Uncle Ben loses his job this year, it would not be for the first time. The…

You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of the occupation “food anthropologist” before. Katherine Spiers hadn’t…

In the most literal sense, Spam is canned meat. It was first sold in 1937 by the Hormel Foods Corporation of Austin,…

As COVID-19 closed restaurants around the country, many wholesalers and purveyors of cooking ingredients began to…

“War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof that we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how…

Remember bars? Remember the crowds? Remember the endless struggle to get a drink? Remember stupid pickup lines?…

My current TV addiction is the FX/Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, about Phyllis Schlafly’s battle to stop the passage…

Some people look at Pyrex mixing bowls and see something retro, maybe the kind of thing their grandmothers cooked…

As cranky old folks love to remind us, milk comes from mammals, not almonds or any other kind of nut, because nuts…

I know what you all are thinking, and the answer is no, Jell-O is not made from horses’ hooves. Any more questions?

My favorite breakfast spot in Chicago was Victory’s Banner. It was a quirky, cheerful cafe in Roscoe Village with…

In Chicago, where I live, any industrial magnate who has the temerity to build an entire company town and name it…

If you’re like me, you’ve spent at least parts of the last couple of weeks animorphing into a nauseated ball of…

I don’t know if anyone was actually wondering this, but let me assure you that 140-year-old bottles of beer do not…

Few things get me as excited as food history. (See: this recipe for a celebratory meat pie from the reign of Henry VI