Cauldrons, now associated with witches and fairytales, used to be one of the only cooking devices available to poor medieval households. They could be compartmentalized to cook different dishes at ...

At first glance, I was a tiny bit discouraged by the recipe for Milk Cordial Water found in the latest cookbook to land on my desk — Kristine Kowalchuk’s Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century ...

Lentils are akin to liver. You either hate them or love them. And it's interesting that this is the first food given a biblical reference. This is a big deal by all accounts. And what was so great ...

Nelly Custis Lewis was Martha Washington’s youngest granddaughter, and was raised at Mount Vernon. In a letter, she gave a recipe for Gen. George Washington’s breakfast of hoecakes, or griddle cakes, ...