Food

The meals, recipes, and flavors that bring us right back to the kitchen table.

Kathy Schwaller And Harvey Hoover and the Day New Coke Hit the Table at Denny’s (April 23, 1985)

On April 23, 1985, Kathy Schwaller And Harvey Hoover sat at a Denny’s in Fort Dodge, Iowa, sipping New Coke while the newspaper in front of them practically wrote the verdict. It’s a small-table memory of a huge cultural misstep—seen up close, in real time.

Marty And Michael and the Day a 45-Cent Big Mac Became Real Again

Marty And Michael sit in a McDonald’s in Moody, Alabama, reading a headline from April 22, 1967—when a Uniontown franchisee debuted what would become the Big Mac—while eating Big Macs, fries, and sipping a drink.