food history
An Edible History of Refrigeration
As part of an exhibition on electricity at the Wellcome Collection museum in London, food designers Josh Pollen and Mike Knowlden have created a five-course meal charting how our ability to keep food cool has changed the way we eat.
Chinese Fortune Cookies Aren’t Actually Chinese
But they do reveal a lot about the history of Chinese food in America. Pretty impressive for a tasteless dessert.
This Artist Is Recreating an 18th Century Kitchen with Bottled Scents
As part of the recent restoration of a Georgian kitchen at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, food historian Tasha Marks has created “scent chambers” to evoke its edible history.
This Photographer Is Documenting Britain’s Hidden Caribbean Food History
Riaz Phillips has spent the last year spent travelling around England, armed with a notepad and a camera, visiting Caribbean bakeries, takeaways, and cafes to document the food and people behind them.
Archaeologists Discover Tools that Prehistoric Butchers Used 250,000 Years Ago
How many nights have you listlessly laid awake in your bed and stared into the inky abyss of the night sky wondering the following: “Just what in the hell did early man use to butcher rhinos in their quest for Stone Age sustenance?”
Ole Missus vs. Mammy: Who Owns Southern Food?
A response to Cynthia Bertelsen's “Edna Lewis and the Mythology Behind Modern Southern Food.”
A Massive, 2,000-Year-Old Chunk of Butter Has Been Unearthed from a Bog
Conway found a 22-pound chunk of butter, that is estimated it to be over 2,000 years old.
Swiss Cheese Has Been Made in the Alps Since Prehistoric Times
An international team of scientists has found that cheese was made in what is now Switzerland as far back as the first millennium BC.
The 65-Year-Old Tale of Mystery Meat Believed to Come From a Woolly Mammoth
A 65-year-old mystery surrounding the origin of some meat—believed to be the flesh of a mammoth or giant sloth—has once and for all been solved.
The History Behind Why Hawaiians Are Obsessed With Spam
Hawaii consumes 7 million cans of Spam a year and there are only 1.42 million of us currently living in the islands—let that sink in a little bit. Nonetheless, Spam is both a blessing and a curse to Hawaiian cuisine.
Humans Have a Long History of Eating Each Other
Anthropophagy, the technical term for eating thy neighbor, is the ultimate culinary taboo, one that we claim only the criminally insane or starving and desperate participate in. But there is a fourth group, who eat people and live among us, known as...