Fast food often feels like a modern convenience born out of today’s busy lifestyles. However, the concept of grabbing a quick ...

"Ancient Food and Flavor" at the Penn Museum features outdoor raised beds with plantings of the types of foods that would have been in ancient Peru, Switzerland, and Jordan. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) ...

2023 may have been a year of serious confessions regarding the Roman Empire, but really, who can blame the men who admitted to thinking about this ancient epoch on the daily? It was certainly a very ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive – theories on how nutrition worked ...

For thousands of years, the pomegranate has been an important food and medicine not only in Greece, but also in many other ...

Scientists have discovered the last meal for ancient animal inhabitants of Earth in a fossil, dating more than 550 million years ago. The researchers found phytosterol molecules, a type of fat found ...

As families gather for home-cooked food this Thanksgiving, there's one acclaimed Los Angeles chef who expresses her gratitude for local flavors by getting out in nature. On a recent day, we find chef ...

Researchers have recently uncovered fascinating new insights into the life and death of a mummified ancient Egyptian crocodile. A study published in the journal Digital Applications in Archaeology and ...

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