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Election Day Used to Be Celebrated With Election Cake—a Boozy, Sugar-Filled Treat That Bakeries Across America Are Reviving

You deserve cake this Election Day.

Election Day Used to Be Celebrated With Election Cake—a Boozy, Sugar-Filled Treat That Bakeries Across America Are Reviving

Food Timeline: You Could Be in Charge of the Web's Most Ambitious Food History Site

Painting of a Puebla Kitchen, by an anonymous artist.

Food Timeline: You Could Be in Charge of the Web's Most Ambitious Food History Site

How to Make the Ancient Roman Fish Sauce Garum at Home

kentnk2009, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

How to Make the Ancient Roman Fish Sauce Garum at Home

The New-York Historical Society Is Sharing Historical Recipes From Its Archives

Knud Winckelmann, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

The New-York Historical Society Is Sharing Historical Recipes From Its Archives

Celebrate National Boston Cream Pie Day by Trying the Original Recipe

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How to Cook Fried Chicken in the 18th Century

11 Old School Foods That Need to Make a Comeback

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Hemingway's Recipe for Fillet of Lion

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum | Public domain via Wikipedia
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