If the American "civil religion" has a side dish, it is potato salad: From Memorial Day to July Fourth to Labor Day, if we're celebrating our soldiers, our freedom, our workers or, really, just the ...

There are recipes for stewed ox meat, dried fig cake, barley-apricot salad and baked sardines with sesame sauce, as well as the proverbial manna from heaven. The ancient Hebrews are thought to have ...

Spoons and bowls and baking pans and ... a Bible? Most modern bakers probably don't associate The Good Book with pulling together a batch of their favorite treats, but during the late 1800s some ...