
Ancient Foods
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Exploring the origins and history of food & drink around the world. My name is Joanna Linsley-Poe. I am a chef, artisan bread baker, ancient food historian, food archaeologist, and anthropologist as well as a writer. Although that sounds like quite a mouthful, I guess it's all about a love of history and food.
Ancient Foods
2y ago
April 1, 2010 by Ancientfoods | Edit Topic: Pasta On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper …
The Annual Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
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Ancient Foods
2y ago
Pakistan “If man has no tea in him, he is incapableof understanding truth and beauty.”– Japanese Proverb India “Making tea is a ritual that stops the…
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Ancient Foods
3y ago
original article: mpg.de
New insights into the diet of our species’ earliest member in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia
Although there has been evidence of our species living in rainforest regions in Southeast Asia from at least 70,000 years ago, the poor preservation of organic material in these regions limits how much we know about their diet and ecological adaptations to these habitats. An international team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has now applied a new method to investigate t ..read more
Ancient Foods
3y ago
Original article: Greekreporter.com
June 27, 2021
Ancient grape seeds confirm that Greeks have been drinking wine for millennia. Credit: Nivet Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0
The oldest wine in Europe was discovered recently in ancient Philippi, northern Greece, the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki announced.
The University presented research that indicates that making and drinking wine in Europe originates from prehistoric Greece.
Thousands of ancient grape seeds and pomace were found in ancient Philippi house whose contents were ..read more
Ancient Foods
3y ago
original article: phys.org
By Trinity College Dublin
Indentation of several goat hooves in a brick from the archaeological site of Ganj Dareh. Credit: The ‘Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project’.
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that died some 10,000 years ago in the Zagros mountains, provide clues to how early agricultural practices shaped the evolution of these animals.
Archaeological evidence has previously pointed to the Zagros Mountains of western Iran as p ..read more