Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
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The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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The medieval food that killed an English king, and could be used to pay your rent
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The Jewish roots of Old Bay Seasoning
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Murder coffee
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
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When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
12 votes