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 →
Long live the Carolina African Runner Who cares whether it really is the "ur-peanut" of the American South Is the Carolina Runner No.4 peanut “the first peanut cultivated in North America” and does it matter anyway? Continue Reading →
A deep dive into cucurbit names How Latin confused cucumbers and watermelons Continuing the short season of bits and pieces that didn’t quite fit in the year’s episodes by getting to grips with the origin of “gherkin” and other names we give cucurbits. Continue Reading →