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Jun 21
5 min

A Brief History of Foods: Roman Pasta?

We keep hearing mention of pasta's ancient Roman roots, but as far as we can ascertain pasta in the form familiar to us today simply did ...

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Jun 20
6 min

A Brief History of Foods: Blood Sausage

Introduction As the name implies, blood sausages[1] are sausages filled with blood that is cooked or dried and mixed with a filler until...

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Jun 20
3 min

A Brief History of Foods: Spice

The spice trade has a long and lucrative ancestry. As early as 2,000 BC cinnamon and cassia (or Chinese cinnamon) were being imported in...

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Jun 20
1 min

A Brief History of Foods: Chilli Peppers

The chilli pepper (from Nahuatl chīlli/ˈt͡ʃiːli/) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solan...

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Jun 20
3 min

A Brief History of Foods: Turkey at Christmas

There was great excitement during Easter 2019 with the announcement of the first secure dating of a rabbit bone, found in Britain, to the...

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Jun 19
2 min

Collop Monday

In an earlier post (Daily Meals in Tudor England) mention was made of "Collop Monday", the day before Shrove Tuesday, in connection with ...

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Jun 18
2 min

Ancient Greek Dining

Tastes Of History started as experts in recreating Roman era cuisine. The history of food, however, is one of continuity and so our repe...

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Tastes Of History

Jun 17
3 min

A Pre-History of Lactose Intolerance

In support of English Heritage’s “Feast Exhibition” at Stonehenge in 2018/19, Tastes Of History was asked to recreate some of what the bu...

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Jun 17
4 min

Why did the chicken cross the Red Sea?

The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest know...

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Jun 16
2 min

A Brief History of Foods: Pheasants

The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is native to Asia but has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. Their original rang...

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Jun 16
2 min

A Brief History of Foods: More Tea?

As costumed re-enactors know only too well there are occasions, especially in the height of yet another glorious British summer, when a w...

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Jun 16
6 min

A Brief History of Foods: Salt

Salt is a chemical compound of sodium and chloride (NaCl) and is an essential nutrient, the amount of which in the diet has a direct infl...

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Jun 16
1 min

A Brief History of Foods: Broccoli

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea italic) is a cultivar of wild cabbage, which originated along the northern and western coasts of the Mediterr...

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Jun 16
3 min

A Brief History of Foods: Strawberries

With the first week of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club's 2015 Championship in Wimbledon all but over, it got me thinking abo...

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Jun 16
2 min

A Brief History of Foods: Chocolate

Cacao seeds (Theobroma cacao), from which chocolate is derived, has been cultivated by many cultures in Mesoamerica for at least three mi...

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Jun 12
2 min

A Brief History of Food: The Tomato

The tomato is the edible, often red fruit/berry of the nightshade Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. The species or...

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Jun 12
2 min

A Brief History of Food: The Carrot

The wild carrot (Daucus carota) is a root vegetable now native in Europe and southwestern Asia. It most likely originated in Persia, reg...

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Jun 1
2 min

A Brief History of Foods: Pepper

Long pepper (Piper longum), sometimes called Indian long pepper, is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae. It is cultivated for its ...

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