When in Rome An eternal story of mythic history Alfredo sauce, made famous in the 1920s, dates back to at least 1390. That, and other surprises of food in the Eternal City.
Celebrating Passover and Easter Thousands of years of ritual food From the first last supper to the resurrection roll. Continue Reading →
A historian of bread on the history of bread "There is no good, no bad, only bread" William Rubel doesn’t think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes. Continue Reading →
Prehistoric food globalisation 0h, East is East, and West is West ... Or maybe not The first farmers and their crops moved much further, much earlier, than previously thought. As they did so they grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins. Continue Reading →
Mistaken about mayonnaise — and many other foods Food history and alternative realities Alternative food facts tramp across the landscape the hordes of the undead. Tom Nealon’s new book Food Fights & Culture Wars aims to lay some of them to rest. Continue Reading →