Footprints of The Frontier on MSNOpinion

This video shows what cowboys ate that could last for years

This video explores the harsh reality of food in the Old West, where cowboys and travelers relied on preserved meals like ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Forget pandemic sourdough, its time for hardtack

Remember when we were lifting our spirits with loaves of homemade sourdough during the early days of the pandemic? It was only 23 months ago, but it feels like a lifetime. Cooking and baking have been ...
The Washington Post

Hardtack Is Easy to Make, Hard to Eat

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 New Yorker

Cluney McFarrar’s Hardtack

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 ...
Christian Science Monitor

Civil War recipes: Hardtack crackers and Confederate Johnny cake

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 ...
The Washington Post

Hardtack: Easy to Make, Hard to Eat

Ihave 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 ...