History of Food

The Prickly Truth: Finding the Real Maror in the Field

Every year as Passover approaches I see the same frantic energy. We scrub our kitchens and we obsess over menus. Then at the very last minute we re...

A Brief History of Human Nutrition in Five Revolutions

What we eat today is the outcome of a long journey. Over hundreds of thousands of years our diet changed again and again, passing through five grea...

The History of Milk in Middle Eastern Nutrition

Introduction Only about 4000 to 6000 years ago, during what is called the Secondary Products Revolution, humans began consuming the milk of animal...

The Lock and The Key in Food History

Researchers and educators in community health examine how physical, emotional, and social well-being are shaped by many different factors, from the...

Nomads

Agriculture and Settlement Began Only About 10,000 Years Ago Only 10,000 years? It sounds long to us, but on the scale of evolution it is brief. B...

More is (Sometimes) Less

We often hear the claim that modern science already knows almost everything there is to know about the world. As scientific fields become increasi...