Prehistoric cooking pots Early farmers were also fishing In many respects the diets of farmers and hunter-gatherers were more alike than different Continue Reading →
The Invention of Baby Food What’s good and when to offer it Commercial baby food was perhaps the original industrial food product, with all that that entails Continue Reading →
Eat This Podcast Xmas Quiz You can’t win unless you enter Perhaps this will help while away a few minutes as you wait for a new episode to drop. Continue Reading →
Black Stoneflower: A unique Indian spice A 25-year effort to track down an elusive but ubiquitous source of flavour in Indian cooking A lichen, which has no taste of its own, contributes hugely to the flavour of many Indian dishes Continue Reading →
A New Story for Maize Domestication It took two teosintes A close look at more than 1000 varieties of maize solves a mystery about how the crop evolved from its wild relatives. Continue Reading →