Although Europeans had been eating chicken for more than 2,400 years, the bird was slow to find its way onto the dinner tables of the English colonies. Chickens crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrims, but only to provide eggs. They were cheap to keep, surviving on almost anything, but few people tho...

We never had quiche in the 1950s. Its existence had never appeared in my dad’s weekly Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s, but a recipe might have appeared in my mom’s monthly copies of Better Homes and Gardens or Ladies’ Home Journal. Although she clipped recipes from the San Antonio Light, I found ...

In 1916, Alfred Grobe opened his Chili Stand on Main Street. Michael Barr suggests he might have been inspired by San Antonio’s Chili Queens. Grobe’s chili sold well. By 1923, he’d added enchiladas to his menu. His recipe began appearing in the Fredericksburg PTA Cookbook by its fourth printing (194...