Top 12 Most Influential Historic American Cookbooks
The American Table's top 12 list of the most influential classic...
Tag Archives: Civil War
Planning Your Memorial Day Picnic
History of Memorial Day with classic recipes and historical suggestions for...
Civil War: Walt Whitman’s “Great Treat of Ice Cream” (1864)
While working at a Union hospital during the Civil War, poet...
Civil War Recipe: Republican Pudding (1863)
Authentic Confederate recipe for Republican Pudding, a Civil-War era rice pudding...
Civil War Recipe: Hardtack (1861)
History and recipe of Hardtack, a dense Civil War-era cracker that...
Recipe: Abraham Lincoln and his Gingerbread Men (1847)
Abraham Lincoln used a childhood story of gingerbread men during debates...
