food + history
- Jill Lepore: Baby Food
- If breast is best, why are women bottling their milk?
- 2009-02-01 to bestof, childreen, food, health, history, society by soobrosa
- They were healthier than us and lived longer. So should we all copy the Victorian diet?
- 'In addition, they typically ate eight to ten portions of fruit and vegetables daily, in a diet that contained far higher levels of vitamins and minerals than occur in today's nutrient-depleted, refined and processed foods.
- 2008-08-27 to bestof, diet, food, health, history by bagoly
- James Meek: The story of borshch
- It's just a bowl of beetroot and cabbage in meat stock. But it was the common denominator of the Soviet kitchen. So what happened to the dish after the collapse of the Union?
- 2008-04-22 to beetroot, bestof, borsch, food, history, russia, soup, ukraine by soobrosa
- Books | All hail the uber-tuber
- Tim Radford salutes John Reader's Propitious Esculen: The Potato in World History, a study of a commodity that has fed civilisation.
- 2008-04-21 to book, food, history, potato by soobrosa
- Harold McGee: Stalking the Placid Apple’s Untamed Kin
- I had the fruit tasting of a lifetime here last month. It went on for 12 hours over two days. By the end I had sampled several hundred different kinds of apples, some like no apple I’d ever tasted before.
- 2007-12-03 to apple, food, fruit, history by soobrosa
- A brief history of chocolate
- It has been drunk, worshipped and fought over; employed as money, face paint, and a disguise for poison. In fact, what hasn't chocolate been used for?
- 2007-05-17 to bestof, food, history by bagoly
- Notes of a Gastronome - The Taming of the Chef
- The practice, which effectively started with the Norman Conquest, was firmly established by 1789—after the Revolution, a whole generation of kitchen help left France and found work in upper-class English homes—and was well consolidated by the nineteenth c
- 2007-04-03 to bestof, food, history, story by bagoly
- One Hot Archaeological Find
- Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.
- 2007-02-19 to food, history by bagoly
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