@grandaha.bsky.socialBefore "farm-to-table" was a menu boast, Chez Panisse ran on a Rolodex and a phone. Alice Waters' real innovation in 1971 wasn't a dish — it was calling the same Berkeley growers until the network held. #FoodHistory #FarmToTable #ChezPanisse #Cooking #TheStockpot
@anthropology.netTwo melon seeds from a 900-year-old shipwreck in China got DNA sequenced, and the fruit wasn’t sweet. Song dynasty melons were pale, tart-free, and likely pickled, not dessert fruit. #ArchaeoGenetics #AncientDNA #FoodHistory www.anthropology.net/p/two-ancien...
@janettespeyer.bsky.socialBreakfast is the most important meal of the day. Who decided that? For centuries, people skipped it or delayed it. How and when did breakfast become something we were told we absolutely needed?
#FoodHistory
#BreakfastHistory
#FoodCulture
#CulinaryHistory
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@culinavetus.bsky.socialToday, a recipe for fig-nut fritters with parallels in several otherwise not strongly related sources. It was clearly transmitted as text, not just as content, and geography mattered, maybe more than class.
@janettespeyer.bsky.socialThe interesting history of mustard and how we eat it through the ages by Max Miller @tastinghistorywithmaxmiller
youtu.be/k5yf-bbHjsY?...
#foodhistory #foodculturebites #foodculture
@classicstutor.bsky.socialFrom daily emmer porridge (puls) to sacred marriage cakes, grain was at the very heart of ancient Roman life and culture. Dive into the history of Roman breadmaking in our latest piece! #Rome #AncientHistory #Classics #FoodHistory #RomanFood #Bread #AncientGrains
@grandaha.bsky.socialAlice Waters wasn't a trained chef when she opened Chez Panisse in 1971 — she was a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher. No apprenticeship, no toque lineage. What she changed wasn't technique but where the food came from.
#FoodHistory #ChezPanisse #FarmToTable #Cooking #TheStockpot
@grandaha.bsky.socialPeking duck reads as imperial Beijing cuisine, but the bird started as street-stall food in Southern Song Hangzhou — hundreds of miles south. It got its crown later, in the Yuan court kitchens. The palace didn't invent it; it adopted it.
@hanoifusion.bsky.social🍜 Pho is one of Vietnam's most famous culinary icons.
But where did it come from, and how did a local noodle dish become known around the world?
hanoifusion.com/the-history-...
#TheHistoryOfPho #PhoHistory #VietnameseFood #VietnamCuisine #FoodHistory #PhoVietnam
@piespuddings.bsky.socialNorfolk fool dates to the 17th century and differs from the 19th century bread-and-butter pudding in its inclusion of dates rather than currants and raisins.
You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/...
#britishfood #foodhistory #recipe #pudding #dates #Norfolk #Stuart
@grandaha.bsky.socialThe duck shows up last. Everything before it — the pancakes, the scallion batons, the sweet bean sauce, the carving cart wheeled to your table — is choreography, and the bird is just the final cue. The ritual is the dish; the meat is the payoff.
@grandaha.bsky.socialTwo ovens fought over the same bird. The menlu sealed it in a closed chamber with dying heat; the gualu hung it over an open flame. Quanjude bet on the gualu, and that's the duck that walked out of the palace and onto the street. #FoodHistory #PekingDuck #Cooking #TheStockpot
@urbaninsideout.bsky.socialIn a nutshell, the argument’s yes!! #foodhistory #ParkSlope #Brooklyn www.parkslopepulse.com/p/was-the-ho...
@janettespeyer.bsky.socialThis food is familiar. But do you know who cooked it?
Most of America’s culinary traditions were influenced by enslaved Africans whose names we barely remember.
foodculturebites.com/forgotten-ch...
#FoodHistory #FoodCulture #BlackFoodways #AmericanFoodHistory #JamesHemings
@culinavetus.bsky.socialI tried the spinach pancake casserole recipe from Das elektrische Kochen today, and it was pretty good. More redactions to come for my revolutionary recipes.
@thetastycinema.comDid you know the "soul of Britain" was actually a 15th-century Portuguese recipe? 🐟🍟
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@passportmag.bsky.socialJump in our wienermobile for a tour of distinctive regional styles of hot dogs across America, and where to find them: https://bit.ly/46SydJt
#hotdogs #hotdog #travelinggourmet #HotDogHeaven #america #foodie #food #weinermobile #foodhistory #frankfurter
