A brief history of the iconic Italian mozzarella cheese.

A guide to poisons, their history and uses in the ancient world.

Recently the BBC broadcast an episode of “ Rick Stein’s Food Stories ” that stated the origin of fish and chips lay with the Portuguese who first fried fish in the 15th-century. While the fried fish claim might have a historical basis, as we will see, the connection with chips is more problematic as potatoes did not appear in Britain until the late 16th-century or early 17th-century. So, was Mr Stein correct? We set out to find out and it seems that, while now a quintessentia

For some time we, at Tastes Of History , believed the hare was a native species in Britain belonging to the genus Lepus [1] . A recent post on social media, however, advocated the Brown Hare was introduced during Roman times and that the Mountain Hare was the only native subgenus. We were surprised so had to investigate further. The Brown Hare, more correctly called the European Hare ( Lepus europaeus ), is native to much of continental Europe and part of Asia, ranging from