Isn’t Farming More Significant than Food Processing for Human History?

Quick Answer: No Hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans lost the ability to do well on a raw diet. From then on they had to cook (here used as…

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A Baker’s Dozen of Food History Blogs

Browsing what popped up in my Feedly (love Feedly) this weekend, I was struck by the number of great blogs out there either dedicated to food history or covering food…

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Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd

Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd

It’s all very well to talk about how the use of fire changed the course of human evolution but then in the deep past, as now, standing in front of…

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