The Flowering of Flour 14,000 Years Ago
“Bread-like” foodstuffs were being made about 14,000 years ago, well before farming was well established. This according to a paper just published by Amaia Arranz-Otaegui and colleagues in a paper…
Read moreIsn’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…
Read more“Plain and Simple:” The Ideal Diet for a Child According to John Locke
“As for [the child’s] diet, it ought to be very plain and simple,” said the philosopher and political theorist John Locke in 1693 in his Thoughts Concerning Education. Bread, bread,…
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