What is hardtack? Hardtack is a simple biscuit or cracker made from water, flour and sometimes salt. The purpose of hardtack was as a food on lengthy military campaigns such as the Civil War. To our ...

Editor’s note: This is the first piece in a new series we’ll be publishing called “Foods of War.” The intention is to examine the historicity behind different rations and meals served to soldiers and ...

THE only trouble with this coffee pot around a Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street is it’s practically one whole war behind the times. Dozens of guys who go in there off the Fifth Avenue buses are old ...

I have always wondered whether hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles, was really all that bad. Historian William C. "Jack" Davis has tried to answer that ...

War is hell, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have uttered.* And the food, he might as well have added, was pretty lousy, too. As the nation marks the 150th anniversary of the ...

Remember when we were lifting our spirits with loaves of homemade sourdough during the early days of the pandemic? It was only 23 months ago, but it feels like a lifetime. Cooking and baking have been ...

“This is actually really good,” said my oldest son Jack. “You know what, it is,” said my dad, reaching for another piece. “What were those soldiers complaining about?” said one of our twins, Oliver.