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Inventing the Restaurant: From Bone Broth to Michelin (podcast)

Humans Were Roasting Starchy Root Vegetables 170,000 Years Ago

The Surprisingly Interesting History of Margarine

California dates

U.S. growers got their first date plants from Morocco, Syria and Algeria

History of pizza

Thousands of historic watercolor paintings of fruit now online

First African-American to dine at White House

How steak became manly and salads became feminine

The first successful frozen dinner wasn’t from Swanson

When U.S. Presidents began to be seen eating

A history of women in restaurants

The history of the refrigerator

How Armenian Immigrants Built an American Candy Empire

Penny restaurants fed the hungry during the Depression

Ancient humans stored leftovers at least 200,000 years ago

Food Conservation During WWI

If war is hell, coffee is salvation

Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century

Why So Many Diners Look Like Train Cars

The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice

If you love kiwi, jackfruit or jicama, thank this woman

Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles

Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia

Movie theatres start selling food during the Depression

How Did Food Stamps Begin?

Coca-Cola on trial in 1911 charged with being injurious to health

The discovery of umami, the fifth taste

Yeast recovered from 1886 shipwreck used to brew new ale

Wild turkeys have made a comeback

Bakers banned from selling sliced bread during World War II

Bananas became a dietary staple as a health food

Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 full text

Developing tasty foods for NASA astronauts took years

Green Books guided black Americans to welcoming restaurants and inns

The Troubled History of Horse Meat in America

Tasty menu at Alcatraz federal prison in September 1946

New York City guts successful school lunch program in 1919

Ancient barley in Finland shows hunter-gatherers also farmed 5,000 years ago

Demand for spices in Middle Ages drove globalization

Bread discovered that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

History of airline meals began in 1919

Swedish engineer invents the juice box

California postman discovered the Hass avocado

When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan

Sealing fruit with coatings like wax goes back more than 900 years

Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life

Ketchup revolutionized way food is grown, processed and regulated in the U.S.

Eleanor Roosevelt does TV commercial for margarine

The chicken experiment that radically changed meat production

Did the introduction of iodized salt raise IQs by 15 points in the U.S. Goiter Belt?

How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain

The “Poison Squad” men who tested food additives on themselves

First attack against Nestle for discouraging breastfeeding

George Washington’s mess kit from Revolutionary War

One of First Vitamin-Fortified Breakfast Cereals

The Ornate Ice Cream Saloons That Served Unchaperoned Women

Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

Short history of ketchup

Urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate

How companies influenced what women baked

Benjamin Franklin gives up eating meat for a time

How U.S. meat industry has protected itself by cost-cutting

John Glenn’s first space meals crumbled and floated around

Were insects a major food source for early humans?

Cookbook that Inspired Generations of Black Cooks

How apples came to be sold on street corners during the Great Depression

The passage in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair that sickened America in 1906

Chestnut trees victim of ecological disaster in 1904

When commercial baby food became popular in the United States

Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Encouraged Growth of Chinese Restaurants

Did an ancient mutation let us consume alcohol?

All of the World’s Yeast Probably Originated in China

Did an ancient mutation let us consume alcohol?

All of the World’s Yeast Probably Originated in China

Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal 5,300 years ago

Mississippi convicts pardoned for eating diet suspected of causing pellagra

Toxic amounts of Vitamin A in Polar Bear Liver

Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine probably came from South America

History of School Lunch programs in the United States

Cause of “milk sickness” that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother

How About a Vitamin D-Enriched Beer?

Busted! Sent to federal prison for coloring margarine

Did calorie miscalculation doom Scott at the South Pole in 1912?

Ex-slave Nancy Green becomes “Aunt Jemima”

No more bread-and-water punishment in Navy

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