The food and dining in Folsom Prison, and an early 20th century meal from a combination of the military cookbooks they used and a commissary report

The decline of food availability on the home front in World War 2 Japan, and a recipe for mock grilled eel from before things got truly dire

The disputed origins of the key lime pie, and one of the first recipes for it with graham cracker crust from 1933

The crimes and punishments of medieval pigs, and a 14th century recipe for marinated roast pork loin

Debunking the myth that people in the Middle Ages didn’t drink water, and a medieval recipe for barley water

The food and ceremonious dining of Kublai Khan, and a recipe written for him for invigorating mastic stew with lamb

The origins and spread of SPAM, and a recipe from a marketing campaign in 1951

The sad tale of Typhoid Mary, and a recipe for peach ice cream, one of her specialties that may have contributed to the spread of typhoid fever

The views on food of major Stoic philosophers of the ancient Mediterranean, and a recipe for lentil soup that they may have enjoyed