Some more resources for food history
1. Did you know that if you were searching library catalogs for cook books, it was best to use “cookery book” as you key word, not “cook book.” I didn’t.…
Read more100,000 years and counting–for eating grains, that is
Caption: These are Middle Stone Age food processing tools recovered from the Ngalue cave site, Mozambique. Credit: Grady Semmens, University of Calgary Usage Restrictions: None It used to be the…
Read moreIs 1492 a/the crucial turning point in food history?
When Alfred Crosby published The Columbian Exchange in 1972, his concise, catchy title quickly became part of the language. And although much of Crosby’s book had more to do with…
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