From the rock-hard hardtack of sailors’ rations to the fluffy common crackers of New England and the inventive saltine ...

I have always wondered whether hardtack, the food staple that Union soldiers called jawbreakers and worm castles, was really all that bad. Historian William C. "Jack" Davis has tried to answer that ...

THE only trouble with this coffee pot around a Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street is it’s practically one whole war behind the times. Dozens of guys who go in there off the Fifth Avenue buses are old ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

MILTON — Molar-breakers, tooth-dullers, and sheet iron — not exactly the names one might choose to describe a signature food. But as one of the country’s last remaining producers of the dense, ...