If you’ve been working your way through God of War Ragnarok, chances are you’ve heard the word ‘Hardtack’ get brought up in conversation. If you’ve never heard of this word before, there’s a good ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the canon of Civil War memory, hardtack stands alone as a meal of qualified negation. No fat, no leavening, no breath of comfort. To eat hardtack is to taste absence. Just flour and water, baked ...

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. Considering what our Civil War soldiers ate, it’s a miracle they moved at all. Their basic marching ration was eight to 10 pieces of ...

Everything you need to know about agent Hardtack. Set as a spin-off of the Saints Row series, Agents of Mayhem follows a special organization known as M.A.Y.H.E.M. that hires specialized soldiers in ...

The Virginia Legislature started 2010 with a meeting Wednesday. They prepared a hard diet to be served up this year of deep cuts to state services and programs and dreaded layoffs -- hardtack to close ...