wartime cake with raisins sliced on a blue plate - Jessica Leyva Alarcon/Shutterstock Food and drink can often be a window into the past, from coffee's prevalence in American culture being largely ...

An anonymous reader inquired about a recipe believed to have been published around the time of World War II, when sugar rationing was going on. The recipe used primarily corn syrup as the sweetening ...

Forty years later, Henry A. Moak, Jr., still loves his pound cake. The Army colonel popped open a military C-ration can of pound cake from 1969 at his retirement ceremony, and dug in. Moak got the ...