How to Stay Updated with Tasting History

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Tasting History keeps its updates in three places: the Latest Episodes feed on tastinghistory.com, a newsletter you can sign up for on the same site, and the Tasting History Cookbook. If you want new episodes and recipes as they appear, the episode feed is the most direct source; if you want updates pushed to you, the newsletter is the option the site itself offers.

Watch new episodes on the site

The homepage lists recent episodes with their publication date, the region and era they cover, and a short description. Each entry links to a full episode page via a "Read more" link.

Recent examples from the feed show the range of what gets published:

Episode Region / Era What it covers
The Aztec Origins of Salsa Mexico, 16th–19th century History of salsa, plus an Aztec version and an 1831 recipe using dried chiles
What Italian Soldiers Ate in World War II Italy, 20th century, WWII Italian military rations and two garrison-ration recipes
Making 2,000 Years of Mustard Ancient Rome, Medieval France, British Isles, 19th century Mustard history with recipes from three periods
Potted Meat – How to Preserve Leftovers in the 18th Century British Isles, 18th century History of potting preserved meat and a 1747 recipe
Who Invented the Piña Colada? Caribbean, 20th century Origin and evolution of the drink, with two recipes
History's Worst Copper Merchant & His 4000 Year Old Cake North Africa & the Near East, Ancient The merchant Ea-Nāşir and an ancient date cake
What Grocery Shopping Was Like in the Middle Ages Italy, Medieval Medieval European grocery shopping and a 15th-century Italian recipe

To use this as an update channel, open the homepage and scan the Latest Episodes section — new entries appear at the top with their date, so you can tell at a glance whether you've missed anything.

Sign up for the newsletter

The site includes a "Sign up for the Newsletter" section. This is the mechanism Tasting History provides for receiving updates rather than checking the site manually. The page evidence does not specify how often the newsletter goes out or what it contains beyond the signup prompt, so treat it as the site's official update channel rather than assuming a fixed schedule.

Get the cookbook

The site states that "The Tasting History Cookbook is Available Now!" with purchase links to Amazon and Barnes & Noble. If your goal is recipes in a durable format rather than episode-by-episode updates, the cookbook is the site's own recommended route. Pricing and availability details are handled on those retailer pages, not on tastinghistory.com.

What the site does not offer

The available page evidence shows no social media links, RSS feed, or app. If you want updates without visiting the site, the newsletter is the only channel documented here. Anything beyond that — a YouTube subscription, for instance — would need to be confirmed on the platform itself rather than assumed from the website.

A practical routine

  1. Sign up for the newsletter once, so new releases reach you without effort.
  2. When an episode interests you, open its "Read more" page for the full history and recipe.
  3. Use the region and era tags on each episode (for example, "Italy, Medieval" or "Caribbean, 20th Century") to find related episodes if you're following a particular cuisine or period.
  4. If you prefer cooking from a book, buy the cookbook through the Amazon or Barnes & Noble links on the site.

That covers the update paths the site itself documents: the episode feed, the newsletter, and the cookbook.