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.

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.

On This Day in American Food History