You've caught me at home alone, and I'm in the kitchen where I'm making a big pot of jack-rabbit stew. I haven't done this delicate dish in maybe 10 years, and I'm sort of feeling my way along. The ...

Rabbits “are helping win the war,” proclaimed a Los Angeles Times article from 1943. Touted as a patriotic food during World War II, rabbits were raised by thousands of Americans in their backyards.

Recipe adapted by Gayle B. Smith from a recipe in “Civil War Recipes, Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book,” edited by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding, The University Press of Kentucky ...