I love these old recipes. Sometimes the flavors are delightful and unexpected; other times they are just unexpected. Always, they're a reminder that the past

I love these old recipes. Sometimes the flavors are delightful and unexpected; other times they are just unexpected. Always, they're a reminder that the past was far less familiar than we usually imagine. That's an especially good reminder to me, as an instinctive conservative, that the past was not the ideal time I often imagine it to have been.