Tasting history: a recipe for disaster: recipes from history's calamities, catastrophes, and conflicts

"History is filled with disasters. Fortunately, there's always something to eat. Creator of the massively popular YouTube series Tasting History with Max Miller, returns with a thrilling new culinary journey through humanity's greatest catastrophes, conflicts, and calamities. In Tasting History: A Recipe for Disaster, Max explores history's darkest moments-from the Bronze Age Collapse and the Black Death to the sinking of the Titanic, the Great Molasses Flood, and World War II-through the foods people cooked, craved, and clung to in times of upheaval. Each chapter immerses readers in a defining historical event before guiding them into authentic, modernized recipes inspired by the people who lived through it. Dine like Roman gladiators before the collapse of the Fidenae amphitheater, prepare Viking skyr aboard a longship, sip Punch Romaine on the Titanic, and make wartime mock banana cream during British rationing. Along the way, Max reveals how food connects us to history in a uniquely visceral way, transforming distant events into deeply human experiences.