Historical Recipes
The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located just southeast of Kraków in southern Poland, is an experience I ll never forget. I spent a full day underground there this month on a private tour that I am still thinking about days later. I went down 135 meters through a wooden shaft, walked through corridors carved entirely from salt,...The post A Day in a Medieval Salt Mine: Wieliczka, Poland s Underground…
You have been driving for hours through the American Southwest, the heat shimmering off the asphalt, and you pull into a general store that looks like it has not substantially changed since 1953. There is a refrigerator full of glass bottle sodas near the back. You reach in and pull out a root beer, and...The post An Original Root Beer Recipe from 1869 appeared first on Eats History .
After years of recreating historical recipes in my kitchen in Arizona, the Eats History Project officially begins. I am in Krakow, Poland, for the month of August, and over the coming months and years I will be traveling the world documenting traditional and historical recipes in the places where they were actually made, eaten and...The post Zapiekanka Recipe: Poland s Communist-Era Street Food…
Before protein shakes, before creatine, before sports dietitians and periodised nutrition plans, before any of the modern apparatus of athletic performance science existed, ancient Greek athletes and their coaches were systematically experimenting with diet as a performance variable. If you enjoy my content and the work/research I do, consider becoming a paid subscriber to support...The post How…
The Eats History Project Begins With Poland s Greatest Soup The Eats History Project is officially underway! After years of building this channel from a kitchen in Arizona, recreating historical recipes from books and manuscripts and archaeological reports, the next chapter has begun. I am in Krakow, Poland, for August, the first stop on a multi-year...The post Żurek Recipe: How to Make Poland s…
Šaltibarščiai (shul-tee-barsh-chay) is a bowl of cold soup the colour of a neon sign, somewhere between hot pink and deep magenta, topped with a halved hard-boiled egg and a shower of fresh dill. It looks like something a food stylist invented for a magazine shoot. It is actually a Lithuanian peasant tradition dating back centuries....The post Lithuania s Iconic Pink Cold Beetroot Soup That Turns…
Winston Churchill, the man who presided over Britain s entire war effort and who ate extremely well throughout it, reportedly declared: The way to lose the war is to try to force the British public into a diet of milk, oatmeal, potatoes, washed down on gala occasions with a little lime juice. That quote tells...The post What British Soldiers Ate in WW2: The Complete Guide to UK Wartime Rations…
Everything you think you know about how prehistoric humans ate is about to get significantly more complicated. The image of the Neanderthal as a raw meat-gnawing, club-wielding brute who survived entirely on whatever he could kill and tear apart with his hands is one of the most persistent myths in popular prehistory. Paleoanthropologists have been...The post Eating like a Neanderthal: A…
I went to see the 2026 Odyssey yesterday, and I genuinely enjoyed it. As a food history blogger whose opinion does not matter whatsoever, I feel obligated to give you my honest take before we proceed! Was it historically accurate to the Bronze Age period it depicts? No! But to be fair, it is based...The post A Meal for an Odyssey: Cretan Paximadi Barley Rusk Recipe for an Ancient Greek Sailor…
There is a rice dish that has been eaten continuously from China to the Mediterranean for over a thousand years. It fed Alexander the Great s army in ancient Samarkand. It was prescribed as medicine by the greatest physician of the medieval world. It sustained Tamerlane s armies before the most important battles of his empire. Silk...The post Medieval Silk Road Plov Recipe: Eating Like a Merchant…
There is a vault in Atlanta, Georgia, inside the World of Coca-Cola museum, where the Coca-Cola Company stores what it claims is the only written copy of the original Coca-Cola formula. It is guarded around the clock. The Coca-Cola Company has consistently denied the authenticity of any publicly revealed version of the formula for over...The post The Original 1886 Coca-Cola Recipe: I Made the Soda…
I gotta be honest, this recipe is so simple and easy to make, I had to double-take when researching the recipes for this one. You look at the ingredient list, you think this cannot possibly be as good as people say, and then you make it, and you understand immediately why an entire country has...The post Brigadeiro Recipe: The Brazilian Chocolate Truffle Born From a Presidential Campaign appeared…