What began in a modest Minnesota workshop as an effort to keep strawberries from spoiling on rural...
Food and Nutrition
Food history examines how people have produced and shared what they eat. Read about the ingredients and traditions that connect everyday meals with culture and historical change.
Taken together, these arguments form a mosaic of resistance. They range from misunderstandings of genetics to genuine...
Pasteurization’s success is so complete that it often becomes invisible, a background technology of safety like chlorination...
The debate over raw milk is not simply about taste or tradition. It is a reminder of...
Fletcherism’s legacy is not merely that of a peculiar dietary eccentricity but of a revealing moment in...
The detox industry may continue to sell the fantasy of the quick fix, but the truth is...
Methylene blue may remain a useful medical tool in its narrow, evidence-based contexts. Outside of that, it...
The edible vaccine conspiracy is, in a way, a folk tale for the digital age—mixing magic, medicine,...
It’s about the gap between our national conversation about health and the structures we actually fund and...
For this great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her...
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill slashes nutrition aid, leaving millions of children at risk of hunger as school...
The country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point”. By Amanda BeckerWashingrton CorrespondentThe 19th News Oaks...
Highly skilled enslaved individuals would be granted freedom and gain Roman citizenship while working professionally for their...
Brick and cake tea that was traded through the Silk Road. By Dr. Vithiyapathy Purushothaman and Dr....
Exploring ancient Roman markets and meals. By Dr. Douglas KenningInstructor of HistoryOsher Lifelong Learning ProgramsThe Fromm Institute...
Promises of quick health fixes are too good to be true. By Dr. Aimee Pugh BernardAssistant Professor...
Morris had a talent for design, creating items such as furniture and manuscripts in a medieval style....
Ancient human diets were not primarily based on animal protein. By Mapping IgnoranceChair of Scientific CultureUniversity of...
An udderly fascinating chronicle of milk. By Daniel FernandezEditorial InternSmithsonian Magazine On May 8, 1858, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated...
Virologists are alarmed. By Stephanie ArmourSenior Health Policy CorrespondentKFF Health News In summertime, cows wait under a...
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards. By Mark SchapiroLecturer in JournlismUniversity of California, Berkeley When Isabella Dalla...
The cookbook’s central role in domestic ideologies. The trouble with studying historical recipes is that they are...
The potato war first started in the states. Introduction Most debates in the House are settled on...
Why is hunger a problem in West Africa today? By Dr. Anya GruberVisiting Fellow in AnthropologyCornell University...
He saw America’s essence in turkeys, succotash, and cranberries. In the midst of the American Revolution, Benjamin...
The medieval information commons as a deep stratum of our present culture. Introduction The “Renew, Reuse, Recycle”...
Modern life is hectic, busy, and full of noise, so if you’re looking for a way to...
The cultural meanings behind opossum hunting and consumption in the U.S. during Jim Crow apartheid. By Dr....
‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing. Introduction...
Dubious claims in product marketing are everywhere. Don’t fall for them. You can’t browse a grocery store...