New York City's lower East Side– for decades, home to countless immigrants from Eastern Europe, and one delicacy from there that's been the object, lately, of food writer Mimi Sheraton's obsession.

Before baking powder, “You’re talking upwards of 12 hours of rising, usually more like 24 hours,” Jessica Carbone, a scholar in the National Museum of American History’s Food History Project, told ...

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Anyone who's spent time with--and coin on--a meal at a hotel restaurant has likely taken notice: The desserts on the menu are, more often than not, pretty consistently tasty and stylish. And surely, ...

Some 225 ago George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in January. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court met for the first time. Vermont itself wasn't yet a state. According to ...

We bake during the holidays to honor our recipes and to preserve the knowledge that most people once had at their fingertips.

In 1938, Ruth Wakefield accidentally invented the chocolate chip cookie at her Toll House Inn. Her improvisation led to a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - On July 7, 1928, Chillicothe Baking Company became the first to sell commercial, machine-sliced bread. This Day in History: 13th Amendment is ratified, ending slavery in the ...