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 | From Arturo Conde, your About Food Editor The New York Public Library has started transcribing historic restaurant menus in an effort to show what people were eating around the world as early as the 1850s. It is no secret that menus can be like blueprints of neighborhoods, cities, and countries, where you can discover different cultural influences and tensions that have shaped the foods you eat. Today we will cover historical dishes and beverages that continue to entice your palates and imaginations. Let us know what historic foods inspire you the most. | |
Celebrate Britain's Youngest Prince with a Roast
 When you think of British food, images of fish and chips quickly come to mind. But no dish is more embedded in Britain's history than the "noble" Sunday Roast. Henry Fielding even wrote a patriotic ballad to it in the early 18th century: "When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food,/It ennobled our brains and enriched our blood./Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good..." Read the full story about the roast beef that emboldened British men and women to sail around the globe here.
| Travel Back in Time with Your Favorite Cocktail
 Some mixologists claim that cocktail recipes can be traced as far back as 1586, when Sir Francis Drake was stranded near Havana. According to legend, the British sea captain mixed mint, lime, sugar cane and tree bark soaked in rum into a drink. But as farfetched as this drinking story sounds, cocktails have become a stylish beverage for all occasions. Try our list of classic recipes dating from the 1930s and before.
| You Scream, I Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream
 In the 1200s, Marco Polo came back from a trip to Asia with an ice cream-like recipe made of milk and snow. Nearly 600 years later, the New York Gazette published the first advertisement for ice cream in America. Since then, ice cream has become one of the most popular summer desserts worldwide. Discover the sweet history of ice cream here.
| The Story of the Globetrotting Peach
 Peaches are good in pies, mixed with yogurt, or freshly picked from their trees. The Chinese have enjoyed them for at least 3 millennia, and the Persians made them popular in Europe after passing them to the Romans. The Spanish brought them to Latin America in the 16th century, and fresh peach pie has been baked by early American settlers and recent immigrants. Try our cobbler recipe here.
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