The Historian's Guide to Cooking

Vladimir Lenin was famously disinterested in food and eating.  For Lenin, food was a necessary inconvenience.  Cuisine was a bourgeois ...

The image of Vikings in contemporary culture bears little resemblance to the actual Nordic people who, from the 8 th  to 11 th  centur...

Medieval European dishes are both familiar and alien to the modern Westerner. While the forms and methods (roasting, boiling, ect) are ins...

The diet of the Classical Greek world was often jokingly referred to as a dish of puls(grain or bean paste) followed by another puls. W...

Ancient Sumeria was home to some of the oldest human cities on record. They hold claim to the oldest written word and oldest code of laws....