Author: Meg Favreau

Meg Favreau is a writer and comedian living in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Big Jewel, The Huffington Post, Table Matters, and The Smew. Her book with photographer Michael Reali, Little Old Lady Recipes: Comfort Food and Kitchen Table Wisdom, was released in November 2011 by Quirk Books. She's currently the senior editor at the frugal living and personal finance site Wise Bread, and a regular guest on American Public Media’s Marketplace Money.
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06/14/2014

No Picnic

China, lobster, buillion... Victorian picnics could be stuffy, laborious affairs. And then came the sandwich.

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02/11/2014

The Chocolate Cure

A little chocolate can cure many ills. But melancholy, fatigue, and infertility? The history of chocolate as medicine.

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01/06/2014

Health Nuts

Deprivation, moralizing, and pseudoscience: You'll discover that dieting hasn't changed much since the 1800s.

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12/05/2013

A Spoonful of Sugar

"Sweets" might sound like a tame recipe booklet, but the tale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is actually pretty creepy.

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06/03/2013

Rarebit Dreams

Welsh rarebit has been around and (possibly) inducing nightmares for centuries. But there's more behind the historic dish than just cheese on toast.

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