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A Pre-History of Lactose Intolerance
In support of English Heritage’s 'Feast Exhibition' at Stonehenge in 2018/19, Tastes Of History was asked to recreate some of what...
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Jun 17, 2020
Why did the chicken cross the Red Sea?
The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Pheasants
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is native to Asia but has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. Their original range...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: More Tea?
As costumed re-enactors know only too well there are occasions, especially in the height of yet another glorious British summer, when...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Salt
Salt is a chemical compound of sodium and chloride (NaCl) and is an essential nutrient, the amount of which in the diet has a direct...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Broccoli
Broccoli (Brassica oleracea italic) is a cultivar of wild cabbage, which originated along the northern and western coasts of the...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Strawberries
With the first week of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club's Championship in Wimbledon all but over, it got us thinking about...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Chocolate
Cacao seeds (Theobroma cacao), from which chocolate is derived, has been cultivated by many cultures in Mesoamerica for at least three...
Tastes Of History
Jun 16, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: Edible Dormouse anyone?
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...
Tastes Of History
Jun 12, 2020
A Brief History of Food: The Tomato
The tomato is the edible, often red fruit/berry of the nightshade Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. The species...
Tastes Of History
Jun 12, 2020
A Brief History of Food: The Carrot
The wild carrot (Daucus carota [1]) is a root vegetable now native in Europe and southwestern Asia. It most likely originated in Persia,...
Tastes Of History
Jun 12, 2020
A Brief History of Food: The Potato
Cultivated potatoes all belong to one botanical species, Solanum tuberosum, but this includes hundreds, if not thousands, of different...
Tastes Of History
Jun 12, 2020
Ostrich Egg in a Pine Kernel Sauce
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...
Tastes Of History
Jun 1, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Long Pepper
Long pepper (Piper longum), sometimes called Indian long pepper, is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae. It is cultivated for its...
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