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An experiment conducted with a unicorn horn.
poison

The Strange History of Royals Testing Food for Poison With Unicorn Horn

It was actually narwhal tusk.
Anne Ewbank April 5, 2018
A "Cup of Knowledge" could hold both tea and the secret to your future.
objects of intrigue

These Fortune-Telling Tea Cups Made Divination Easy

"Many Curious Things I See, When Telling Fortunes In Your Tea."
Anne Ewbank April 4, 2018
The "Six O'Clock Swill" at a bar in Victoria, Australia.
bars

The ‘Six O’Clock Swill’ Was an Hour of Drunken Anarchy

How Australia and New Zealand’s restrictive alcohol laws fostered a culture of binge drinking.
Natasha Frost April 4, 2018
Tanaquil Le Clercq signs books during the signing of The Ballet Cook Book at Bloomingdale's, in New York, alongside Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden in 1967.
food

How a 1960s Cookbook Became a Window Into the Secret Lives of Ballet Icons

The out-of-print book became a ballerina’s second act.
Trina Mannino April 4, 2018
The forced rhubarb grows in complete darkness, aside from the occasional glow of a candle.
Rothwell, England

Rhubarb Triangle

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.
Seongmin Ahn's "Multifaceted Potato" incorporates actual potatoes.
museums

The Art Show That's All Potatoes

It's courtesy of the tuber's biggest hype man.
Anne Ewbank April 2, 2018
Women working on the Tabasco production line, Avery Island, 1961.
food

How Climate Change Could Swallow Louisiana's Tabasco Island

With thousands of square miles of land already lost along the coast, Avery Island faces being marooned.
Oliver Milman April 2, 2018
A central Pomo woman with army worms in Ukiah Valley, California, c. 1904.
insects

Why Eating Insects Is an American Tradition

Both Native Americans and colonists enjoyed fried cicadas, grasshopper flour, and insect fruitcakes.
Mark Hay April 2, 2018
A 16th-century painting shows a family enjoying pancakes and waffles.
food

Remembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries Past

Green, herbal, and slightly toxic.
Natasha Frost March 30, 2018
Sailors from the H.M.S. President in 2017.
holiday

How This London Pub Got Its Buns Back

Hot cross buns, that is.
Anne Ewbank March 30, 2018
The bread arches at night.
festivals

Every Easter, a Sicilian Town Builds a Cathedral Out of Bread

It's a competitive team sport.
Vittoria Traverso March 30, 2018
Food was airdropped in April, ending the hunger winter.
nazis

How Famine Under the Nazis Revealed the Cause of Celiac Disease

A food shortage helped one doctor prove his theory.
Anne Ewbank March 29, 2018
Two Iranian teenagers drink Pepsi and eat at a fast food restaurant in Tehran.
food

How Bootleg Fast Food Conquered Iran

Mash Donalds, Sheak Shack, and Pizza Hat are very popular.
Sarra Sedghi March 29, 2018
This machine made music, not meat.
thomas edison

The Hoax That Claimed Thomas Edison Could Turn Dirt Into Food

Newspapers worldwide printed that he'd invented a miraculous machine.
Anne Ewbank March 28, 2018
At a council, the chief sits at the place of honor surrounded by his advisors. Cassina is prepared by women in the foreground.
food

The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.
Ben Richmond March 28, 2018
The Old Salem Coffee Pot
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Old Salem Coffee Pot

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.
C. Todd Kennedy examines sloe plums.
farms

The Quiet Rescue of America’s Forgotten Fruit

One man is responsible for roughly half of the country's stone fruit collection.
Anne Ewbank March 27, 2018
A classic blue butter cookie tin (though not the Royal Dansk brand).
food

What's in Your Royal Dansk Cookie Tin?

Tell us about all the non-cookies you keep or have found in the blue containers.
Paula Mejia March 27, 2018