Christmas Cake

Dieting

Bye bye, New Year's Resolutions.

Restaurants Part I

What did dining out look like to in the time before health inspections, safe food handling techniques, germ theory, and refrigeration? In a word: Bad. It's late but it's here at last: Restaurants, part I.

Cake Mixes

What started as a ploy to move dehydrated molasses has become a cultural institution.

Deadly Dinnerware

What could be worse than drinking from a lead cup? Well, try radioactive crockery on for size.

Christmas Cake

Christmas cake. Some love it, plenty hate it. But in spite of its status as a reviled piece of confectionary, it persists. Where did it come from? And if everyone hates it, why do we still have it?