Cooking steak the 19th-century way sounds crazy, but could it be better than modern methods? I’m using confit, an ancient cooking process, to see if it creates a more tender and flavorful steak. Watch ...

Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Late Nineteenth-Century Brand Creation: Making Markets for Processed Food." Business History Review 73, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 348–392.

In the nineteenth century, while canned food was initially an expensive luxury, wars and industrialisation helped to increase its availability to working-class men. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC ...

In January 1885, shopkeepers in Poona and Bombay stocking European and American canned foods were suddenly and unexpectedly faced with customers returning their unopened cans or cancelling their ...