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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ihave 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 ...

Nothing works up a hunger like hitting the dusty trail on horseback or working a long day on the ranch. And when cowboys of yore were tired or needed to fuel up for a little more giddy-up, their go-to ...