Cider, water, milk, and whiskey! By Melissa Swindell / 12.06.2012 Executive Director The Wren’s Nest Practically everyone...
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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...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru. Robert Gutierrez, Author provided How did civilization emerge from small...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer...
The First Salmon ceremony being performed. U.S. Department of Agriculture , Public Domain Indigenous people from around the world revere...
Humboldt Fog chèvre, born in a dream. T.Depaepe, CC BY-ND By Dr. Heather Paxson / 12.13.2017 Professor of Anthropology...
Bone-flinging feast? Giles Gasper Think of medieval food and a whole range of not especially dignified images come...
A reconstruction of Homo erectus making fire, Zhoukoudian Museum, China. Darren Curnoe, Author provided Few of us pause to reflect...
Motal cheese is a fresh goat’s milk cheese made primarily in remote mountain areas in Armenia. / Cross...
Herbert Hoover surrounded by admiring children in war-torn Poland, 1946 Why aren’t we reacting with the same...
A Boyar Wedding Feast, by Konstantin Makovsky, 1883 / Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens via Wikimedia Commons ...
In early modern Europe, melted sugar became its own dizzyingly complex artistic medium. By Dr. Darra Goldstein...
Baking Bread (detail) in a psalter by an unknown illuminator, Belgium, mid-1200s. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and...
By Maite Gomez-Rejón / 02.12.2015 Food and sex are the most basic human drives. It’s no wonder that aphrodisiacs—food...
“These women really represent their culture. They are the vessels that carry this culture forward.” / Photo by...
Ava Gene’s, a Roman-inspired restaurant in Portland, Ore., incorporates colatura, a modern descendant of ancient Roman fish sauce,...
Dentist (detail), 1659–81, Jan van der Bruggen. Engraving, 26.6 x 18.7 cm. Image courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The exploding...
Poseidon taking chocolate from Mexico to Europe, a detail from the frontispiece to Chocolata Inda by Antonio Colmenero de...
The magical substance: Cacao Fruit and Leaf, November 27, 1783, Jan Brandes. Graphite and wash on paper, 19.5...
The scoop on how a familiar frozen treat once got respectable folk all hot under the collar....
The discreet charms of the bourgeoisie owe something to the attractions of life as conjured by cookbook...
Japanese Christmas cakes in production in Nagoya, Japan. (Photo: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images) By Kevin...
LightField Studios/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Natalie Munro / 12.15.2017 Professor of Anthropology University of Connecticut This holiday season...
Photo by stevepb, Pixabay, Creative Commons By Megan Ray Nichols / 12.14.2017 Mention the word keg, and...
Another day, another diet. Yuriy Maksymiv/Shutterstock By Dr. Melissa Wdowik / 11.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Food Science and...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...