We asked two history experts to share details of the meals and snacks that Victorians liked to eat, and some of the dishes ...

Now that strawberries are back in season, it’s time to start using them in everything we do. Pop them in your morning cereal ...

Porter (1/2 to 1 cup of dark, sweet beer - Guinness is fine, or brandy or sweet sherry can be substituted) Optional: mixed spice, ground ginger, juice of an orange. Quantities are very vague. The ...

Many Victorian dishes do not sound that appetizing. People during this era consumed some incredibly strange food and drink, either through necessity or simple desire. One example? Egg wine. Another?

Sugar plums have a way of sounding like something straight out of a storybook, yet they were once a very real Victorian treat enjoyed during celebrations and winter gatherings. They’re surprisingly ...

My Christmas baking is done, once again with a nod to a woman wearing a hand-tatted lace collar and cameo brooch. No, not jolly Mrs. Claus, but someone who gave us words as gifts, the poet Emily ...

Poor families would ensure that they got their Christmas goose by paying into a goose club and, without an oven, having it roasted by the baker. In A Christmas Carol, the Cratchit children go wild ...

Next week, the University of Chicago Press will publish a facsimile of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, first published in 1889. Included among the illustrations of such unnatural ...