The Latin term 'craticula' is a diminutive form of 'crates' used to mean a gridiron (Martial, 14.221) [1], the bars of which give it the...

All Romans ate dormice didn't they? You may have been told that in school, and it's still a popular and persistent belief, but it's...

The tomato is the edible, often red fruit/berry of the nightshade Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. The species...

The wild carrot (Daucus carota [1]) is a root vegetable now native in Europe and southwestern Asia. It most likely originated in Persia,...

Cultivated potatoes all belong to one botanical species, Solanum tuberosum, but this includes hundreds, if not thousands, of different...

Back in 2015 BBC Two's re-ran its series 'Kew on a Plate' presented by Raymond Blanc and Kate Humble. They had spent the year at Kew...

One of the tasty recipes drawn from Apicius is for 'soft eggs in a pine kernel sauce' (Apicius 7.13.3). Should you wish to reproduce this...

In April 2005 David Sapsted, writing for The Telegraph newspaper, reported that: 'Years of division among academics over whether the...

Long pepper (Piper longum), sometimes called Indian long pepper, is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae. It is cultivated for its...