The History of Food

Humans have depended on fire for millennia, but do we fully understand the impact it has had on our diet? When our hunter-gatherer ancestors learned t...

From the first row of planted crops, the practice of agriculture rendered man's hunter-gatherer lifestyles obsolete in favor of settled life and stabl...

Just as humans have always sought food to survive, we have also sought the means to preserve that food. Right from the very moment of a kill or a harv...

Industrialization brought the second great food revolution. Over the brief span of the 20th century, agriculture underwent greater change than it had...

Industrialized and processed food has dominated the last century. Now, the question is, what's next? We go around the world to meet pioneers in urban...