As celebrity chef Alton Brown once creatively demonstrated, a sturdy cardboard box, a hot plate, wood, and a cast-iron skillet can be used to create a functional smoker. At its core, a smoker is a ...

In the final months of World War II, Japan deployed Shin’yō motorboats - small, wooden suicide vessels packed with over 660 pounds of explosives and piloted by young men - against Allied ships. On ...