Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Garum: Rome’s new library and museum of food An old monastery houses treasures old and not so old On the slopes of the Palatine Hill, supposedly on the site where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, a new food museum. Continue Reading →
Sushi From necessity to ubiquity The story of perhaps the greatest transformation in the history of food and how it continues today Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
Celebrating Passover and Easter Thousands of years of ritual food From the first last supper to the resurrection roll. Continue Reading →