Many Victorian dishes do not sound that appetizing. People during this era consumed some incredibly strange food and drink, either through necessity or simple desire. One example? Egg wine. Another?

Next week, the University of Chicago Press will publish a facsimile of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, first published in 1889. Included among the illustrations of such unnatural ...

Sugar plums have a way of sounding like something straight out of a storybook, yet they were once a very real Victorian treat enjoyed during celebrations and winter gatherings. They’re surprisingly ...