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Celebrating Passover and Easter Thousands of years of ritual food
15 April 2019

From the first last supper to the resurrection roll.

A historian of bread on the history of bread "There is no good, no bad, only bread"
1 April 2019

William Rubel doesn’t think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes.

Prehistoric food globalisation 0h, East is East, and West is West ... Or maybe not
18 March 2019

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.

Mistaken about mayonnaise — and many other foods Food history and alternative realities
27 March 2017

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.

Long live the Carolina African Runner Who cares whether it really is the “ur-peanut” of the American South
9 January 2017

Is the Carolina Runner No.4 peanut “the first peanut cultivated in North America” and does it matter anyway?

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