Making Mr Song’s Cheese China appreciated cheese and dairy long before it was decided they couldn’t
The standard story is that ethnic Chinese don’t eat cheese or drink milk because they are lactose intolerant. They do, but it’s complicated
Tag: Food history
Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce
Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Garum: Rome’s new library and museum of food An old monastery houses treasures old and not so old
On the slopes of the Palatine Hill, supposedly on the site where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, a new food museum.
Sushi From necessity to ubiquity
The story of perhaps the greatest transformation in the history of food and how it continues today
When in Rome An eternal story of mythic history
Alfredo sauce, made famous in the 1920s, dates back to at least 1390. That, and other surprises of food in the Eternal City.