Just What IS a Cookbook? Definitions, Frontispieces, Title Pages, and an Aphorism or Two January 27, 2014November 22, 2024

Why Study the History of Cookbooks, Or, The Art and the Mystery of Food* January 10, 2014November 22, 2024

The Dark History of the Holy City: What Lies Behind the Pineapples of Charleston, South Carolina December 1, 2013November 22, 2024

Eating Dessert at the White House + A Word about Dallas, November 22, 1963* November 21, 2013April 20, 2023

What’s A Turnip Got to Do with Halloween? Or Rutabagas, Beets, and Gourds, for That Matter? October 31, 2013April 20, 2023

Preserved Mushrooms: Choice Gems from a Few Examples of Historic Cuisine October 14, 2013November 22, 2024

Martha’s Mushrumps and Mary’s Catsup, or, Mushrooms in Early American Cookbooks October 5, 2013November 22, 2024

The Legend of the Blackberries on Michaelmas Day September 30, 2013April 20, 2023

Why Do We Cook? September 8, 2013November 22, 2024

A Glass of Wine and a Bit of Mutton* April 2, 2013November 22, 2024

The Story Behind a Kitchen-Counter Sweet-Potato Patch February 6, 2013September 22, 2019

* The Legacy of a Typo: A Meditation on Tomato Gravy January 21, 2013November 23, 2024