So long, salt and vinegar: How crisp flavours went from simple to sensational
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The intoxicating history of gin
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A brief history of the crock pot
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The world’s oldest-known recipes decoded
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The tangled history of spaghetti bolognese
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Crab rangoon: How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish
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"Whipt Cream, Like Snow" (Cream Puffs) | 18th Century Cooking
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A conversation with the team that made bread with 4500-year-old yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery
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How watermelon's reputation got tangled in racism
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The rise and fall of French cuisine
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The oral history of Four Loko in New York
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The surprising truth about Indian food
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How almonds went from deadly to delicious
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The Past as Possibility in the Appalachian South: How chef and Eater Young Gun Ashleigh Shanti centers African-American voices through her cooking
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American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested
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How the sandwich consumed Britain: The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year
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Beer archaeologists are reviving ancient ales — with some strange results
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Bok choy and bread fruit: How traditional crops fit a food secure future
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The world’s oldest vegetarian restaurant
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"Breakfast food" is a lie - Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else
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Recreating the Oldest Fried Fish Recipe (10th century)
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Recreating the World's Oldest Tart Recipe | Munchies
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A history of pizza
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Bigger, saltier, heavier: Fast food since 1986 in three simple charts
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This land is meant only for saffron. Without it, it means nothing.
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The Reese’s Piece: How a series of creative ads helped Reese’s peanut butter cups—and later, candy-coated peanut butter candies—conquer the world
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During WWII, Bletchley Park was home to codebreaking and tea shenanigans
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The birthplace of the modern apple
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These men ate poison so you could have the FDA
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Authentically what?
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Tamales are a treat for Día De Los Muertos—and the other 364 days of the year
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How were raisins made before seedless grapes?
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David R. Chan's love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him eat at over 7,300 Chinese restaurants and become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history
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The oldest coffee in the world
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Cheese played a surprisingly important role in human evolution
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Was the chocolate chip cookie dumb luck or Nobel-level genius?
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The secret story behind Turkish delight
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Where did the term "86" come from?
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1787 Beer Soup from Germany - Townsends
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How did salt and pepper become the soulmates of Western cuisine?
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A history of Johannesburg in ten dishes. The dishes that explain the history of South Africa’s Gold Rush City.
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A history of Moscow in thirteen dishes
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Banana domestication began some 7,000 years ago, but researchers are only now piecing together the global journey of the beloved yellow fruit
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Garum, Rome's favorite condiment
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Ancient Egypt: Cheese discovered in 3,200-year-old tomb
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How yogurt fueled the rise of civilization
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The Truth About Japanese Tempura
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Here's what fifty years of food supply data says about Canada's eating habits
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World's oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan
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How pie-throwing became a comedy standard
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