Preservation Society
Early Americans brought a "can do" attitude to the problem of food storage
The Inn Crowd
Bad food and lousy beds didn't keep early American taverns from turning a tidy profit
Simplicity, Voluntary or Otherwise
In colonial America, something as simple as a bed or spoon divided the haves from the have-nots
The Benevolence of the Butcher
Dressing meat and stuffing sausage meant being a cut above the rest
Bleak House
Bringing the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number of people meant bringing greater misery to the already wretched
Diner Forty Niner
There may have been gold in "them thar hills," but there wasn't much to eat
The Great Hog-Eating Confederacy
Tobacco and cotton may have enriched the American South, but pork and corn fed it
The People's Kitchen
Does the modern workplace cafeteria owe its existence to one 19th-century activist's effort to feed the laboring multitudes?
Hex Before Marriage
Turning on the charm used to mean something quite different
Social Habits
A stay at a medieval monastery often featured a lavish meal hot from the friar
Serving the Rich
The meek shall inherit the earth -- if the mighty don't consume it first
Chestnut Economics
When this staple food didn't roast on an open fire, it sparked an urge to increase profit and stoked flames of popular revolt
Riot Grrrls in Space
Decades after its incomplete publication, are comics readers finally ready for the groundbreaking feminist space saga Starstruck?