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Food history

Index Food history

Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history of food and nutrition, and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food. [1]

50 relations: Acquacotta, Andrew Dalby, Arlene Voski Avakian, Balti (food), Bi Skaarup, Charles Perry (food writer), Chitrita Banerji, Cracker Jack, Cuisine of Hawaii, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Dosa, Elizabeth David, Food & History, Food writing, History of alcoholic drinks, History of beer, History of bread, History of breakfast, History of California bread, History of cheese, History of chocolate, History of herbalism, History of pizza, History of seafood, History of sugar, History of sushi, History of the hamburger, History of the hamburger in the United States, History of the potato, Jane Renfrew, Jessica B. Harris, Joan Thirsk, List of dining events, List of food and beverage museums, List of historians by area of study, List of historical cuisines, List of In Our Time programmes, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen, Ovelgönne bread roll, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Panikos Panayi, Petits Propos Culinaires, Polly Russell, Pushpesh Pant, Rachel Laudan, Sidney Mintz, Steven Kaplan (historian), Timeline of food, William L. Clements Library.

Acquacotta

Acquacotta (Italian for "cooked water") is a bread soup in Italian cuisine that was originally a peasant food.

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Andrew Dalby

Andrew Dalby, (born 1947 in Liverpool) is an English linguist, translator and historian who has written articles and several books on a wide range of topics including food history, language, and Classical texts.

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Arlene Voski Avakian

Arlene Voski Avakian (born 1939) is an Armenian-American academic specializing in women's studies and food history.

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Balti (food)

A balti or bāltī gosht (بالٹی گوشت, बाल्टी गोश्त) is a type of Lamb meat or goat meat curry served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a "balti bowl".

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Bi Skaarup

Bi Skaarup (September 9, 1952 in Copenhagen – March 15, 2014 in Copenhagen) was a Danish archeologist, author, food historian and lecturer.

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Charles Perry (food writer)

Charles Perry is an American food historian.

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Chitrita Banerji

Chitrita Banerji is one of the very few Indian food historians in the world.

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Cracker Jack

Cracker Jack is an American brand of snack consisting of molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, well known for being packaged with a prize of trivial value inside.

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Cuisine of Hawaii

The cuisine of Hawaii incorporates five distinct styles of food reflecting the diverse food history of settlement and immigration in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal is a restaurant in London, England.

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Dosa

Dosa is a type of pancake from the Indian subcontinent, made from a fermented batter.

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Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David, CBE (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer.

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Food & History

Food & History is a multilingual (French, English, German, Italian and Spanish) scientific journal that has been published since 2003.

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Food writing

Food writing is a type of writing that focuses on the topic of food, both widely and narrowly defined, and includes work by food critics and food historians.

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History of alcoholic drinks

Purposeful production of alcoholic drinks is common and often reflects cultural and religious peculiarities as much as geographical and sociological conditions.

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History of beer

Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millennium BC in Iran, and was recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and spread throughout the world.

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History of bread

Bread was central to the formation of early human societies.

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History of breakfast

Breakfast is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work.

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History of California bread

The history of California bread as a prominent factor in the field of bread baking dates from the days of the California Gold Rush around 1849, encompassing the development of sourdough bread in San Francisco.

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History of cheese

The production of cheese predates recorded history.

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History of chocolate

The history of chocolate begins in Mesoamerica.

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History of herbalism

The history of herbalism is closely tied with the history of medicine from prehistoric times up until the development of the germ theory of disease in the 19th century.

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History of pizza

The history of pizza begins in antiquity, when various ancient cultures produced flatbreads with toppings.

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History of seafood

The harvesting and consuming of seafoods are ancient practices that may date back to at least the Upper Paleolithic period which dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago.

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History of sugar

Sugar is a common part of human life.

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History of sushi

The history of sushi began with paddy fields in Asia, where fish was fermented with salt and rice, after which the rice was discarded.

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History of the hamburger

The Hamburger (also commonly called “burger”) most likely first appeared in the 19th or early 20th century.

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History of the hamburger in the United States

A hamburger (or burger) is a sandwich that consists of a cooked ground meat patty, usually beef, placed between halves of a sliced bun or between slices of bread or toast.

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History of the potato

The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between 8000 and 5000 BC.

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Jane Renfrew

Jane Renfrew, Lady Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is a British archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist noted for her studies on the use of plants in prehistory, the origin and development of agriculture, food and wine in antiquity, and the origin of the vine and wine in the Mediterranean.

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Jessica B. Harris

Jessica B. Harris (born March 18, 1948) is an American culinary historian, college professor, cookbook author and journalist.

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Joan Thirsk

Irene Joan Thirsk, (née Watkins; 19 June 1922 – 3 October 2013) was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of agriculture.

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List of dining events

This is a list of historic and contemporary dining events, which includes banquets, feasts, dinners and dinner parties.

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List of food and beverage museums

This is a list of food and beverage museums.

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List of historians by area of study

This is a list of historians categorized by their area of study.

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List of historical cuisines

This list of historical cuisines lists cuisines from recent and ancient history by continent.

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List of In Our Time programmes

In Our Time is a discussion programme on the history of ideas; it has been hosted since 1998 by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

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Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is an Irish lecturer and professional chef.

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Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen

or Motokochan in Wonder Kitchen is a 1993 Super Famicom point-and-click video game that features minigames related to cooking.

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Ovelgönne bread roll

The Ovelgönne Bread Roll is the remaining part of a bread roll originating from the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Northern Europe, which was found in 1952 during archaeological excavations in a loam mine in the Buxtehude district Ovelgönne in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual weekend conference at which academics, food writers, cooks, and others with an interest in food and culture meet to discuss current issues in food studies and food history.

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Panikos Panayi

Panikos Panayi (18 October 1962–) is a cultural historian known for his books on the social history of food, immigration, and inter-ethnic relations.

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Petits Propos Culinaires

Petits Propos Culinaires is a journal of the history of food and cookery.

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Polly Russell

Polly Elisabeth Russell is a food historian and curator at the British Library with responsibility for research on social science and food.

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Pushpesh Pant

Pushpesh Pant (born 1947) is a noted Indian academic, food critic and historian.

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Rachel Laudan

Rachel Laudan is a food historian, an author of the prizewinning Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History.

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Sidney Mintz

Sidney Wilfred Mintz (November 16, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an anthropologist best known for his studies of the Caribbean, creolization, and the anthropology of food.

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Steven Kaplan (historian)

Steven Laurence Kaplan served as the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History in the Department of History at Cornell University, where he is now a professor emeritus.

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Timeline of food

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William L. Clements Library

The William L. Clements Library is a rare book and manuscript repository located on the University of Michigan’s central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_history

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