When someone, especially a smart housewife, decides to buy cookware, whether it is anodized or any other...
Food
Climate change has potentially already affected global production of the ten largest crops and the production of...
Honor Ceres, the goddess of wheat, with this ancient recipe. Introduction Although Ceres (Greek Demeter) was in...
Rationed foods were categorized as either needing red or blue points. Introduction The events on December 7,...
Banquets were likely used as an opportunity for rulers to spread a little happiness amongst those they...
Unfortunately, the story of the starving college student has become all too common on campuses across the...
Though food costs rose for everyone, low-income families living in districts like the Lower East Side, were...
Marketers decided to focus on the ‘purity’ of factory food processing – a successful strategy that other...
A sculpture in St. Peter’s Square to commemorate the travails and hopes of displaced people through human...
Some populations of Neanderthals were definitely more carnivorous than others. By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One of the...
The artist uses her craft to represent and raise awareness of Asian-American history and identity. Jasmine Cho...
How did the Columbian Exchange shape food culture in the modern world? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
If you were lucky enough to exist in the wealthiest sets of society… The “Gilded Age,” a...
Let’s adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food? Yes, that’s right, fast...
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns, yields of some crops are increasing while others decline....
Examining the connectedness and transnational interactions in the French spice project through the lens of Poivre’s informal...
What the Romans ate and how. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The ancient Mediterranean diet revolved around four...
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected...
The “age of extremes” from 1914 to 1945 created renewed demand for cheap supplies of protein. One...
A medieval kitchen / British Library, Public Domain If your latest diet resolution is already under strain,...
Examining the reception of Italian cuisine in Europe with the early modern and modern movement of migrants...
How did a religious celebration turn into a holiday that is all about home, family, and Christmas...
Thermodynamics holds the answers to your wildest campfire dreams. (Brent Hofacker / Alamy) The gooey treat couldn’t have become...
Sweeter Alternative/Flickr Human physiology evolved on a diet containing very little sugar and virtually no refined carbohydrate. By...
The Wizard of Oz promised results he could not deliver but was convincing in his presentation. Diet...
Very few people today live a true hunter-gatherer lifestyle – and Paleo diets likely oversimplify what would...
What if, rather than the barricade, we were to think of counter-power in terms of a space such...
Cider, water, milk, and whiskey! By Melissa Swindell / 12.06.2012 Executive Director The Wren’s Nest Practically everyone...
Still Life with Fruit, Oysters and a Porcelain Bowl, Abraham Mignon, 1660 – 1679. / Rijksmuseum Medieval...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...