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13 June 2022
Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?
16 May 2022
France abolished slavery in 1815 but the practice continued long after that in its west African enclaves
2 May 2022
On the slopes of the Palatine Hill, supposedly on the site where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, a new food museum.
25 April 2022
A paper in Nature Food today reports the results of a group of scientists in Finland who modelled the environmental impact of replacing animal-source foods in current European diets with novel or plant-based foods. They conclude: Replacing animal-source foods in current diets with novel foods reduced all enviornmental impacts by over 80% and still met […]
18 April 2022
New studies make sense of tomato’s transformation from teeny-fruited weed to diversity diva.
4 April 2022
A doctor in London chronicles his eating adventures through fact and fiction
14 March 2022
What you call a plantain is probably an accident of history
21 February 2022
Discussions about food often “bump up against philosophy” according to an actual philosopher, whose book helped me to think more clearly about food.
16 February 2022
My visit to Ostia Antica last year, guided by the wonderfully knowledgeable Farrell Monaco, was destined to end in more than a podcast. There was no way I was going to be able to avoid attempting a panis quadratus of my own, and what better time to make the effort than during Fornacalia? How did […]
7 February 2022
Giving people cash improves dietary diversity and child growth