"Obesity cures."

Noche Buena When There Was Christmas.

What Noche Buena was like in Cuba before the Fidel Castro regime outlawed it in the late 1960s.

Crema de Vie: A Cuban Eggnog-Style Holiday Drink

A tradition that survived the decades without Christmas.

On Thanksgiving

If I had a penny for every time someone tells me “Did you know that the Thanksgiving story is made up?!?!?!” upon finding out that I am a food historian of Colonial America I would probably have enough money to cover a subway ride. My response is always sarcastic, a language in which I’m fluent. “No! I had no idea! Tell me more!” They usually don’t, and we move on.

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Shrimps Louisiana ... with 7up

A Mid-Century Recipe

New York Ice Cream

From The Pillsbury Cook-Book, 1904

"Marmulate of Cherries"

A 17th-Century Cherry Jam

When Home-Made Ice Cream Had Raw Egg Whites

It’s the dog days of summer and it seems like no-churn ice cream is everywhere online. It’s on blogs, online newspapers, and social media. No-churn ice cream has been around for a long time, but in recent years people have been using condensed milk as a way of keeping the ice cream scoopable and its texture smooth.