Preserved Cherries (1749)
A cache of Martha Washington’s preserved cherries have recently been unearthed at Mount Vernon.
Rediscovering American Food Traditions
One Recipe at a Time…
How Bacon and Eggs Became the American Breakfast
In the 1920s, Edward Bernays popularized a heavy breakfast of bacon and eggs as an advertising campaign for Beech-Nut pork products.
Recipe: Bourbon Old Fashion (1880)
The history behind the classic bourbon old-fashioned cocktail along with the earliest published recipe.
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Buwei Yang Chao and the Invention of ‘Stir-Frying’
The term ‘stir-frying’ was just one popular phrase coined in the historic 1945 cookbook ‘How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.’
Recipe: Tunnel of Fudge Cake (1966)
This chocolatey Pillsbury Bake-Off runner-up led to a nationwide obsession with Bundt cakes.
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