"Velvet cakes" date back to the Victorian era. Unlike the heavier and more dense cakes that early settlers were used to, this ...

This cake is technically the first “chocolate cake” on record and, according to Anne Byrn’s book American Cake, it can be ...

Election cakes were so popular in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1800s that they were dubbed 'Hartford Election Cakes.' The ...

A survey of historic recipes, menus and cookbooks, plus conversations with Savannah culinary historians, offers fresh ...

While Black cooks were left uncredited in these cookbooks, African ingredients played a central role in recipes published ...

However, potatoes didn’t become a feature of the Thanksgiving menu until some sixty years later. Serving them on Turkey Day became popular after novelist Sarah Josepha Hale, who some call the Mother ...

Gumbo, a hearty and flavorful stew, is a quintessential New Orleans dish frequently appearing on Thanksgiving tables. It is ...