Many people think of the great Silk Road as a mirage in the shifting sands of time; however, the ideas and goods that once moved across Eurasia directed the course of human history.
Robert N. Spengler III discusses studying botanical remains at archaeological sites, the agricultural landscapes of the Silk Road, and the unique history of the apple.
This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …
This guest post is published around the American Society for Environmental History conference in Riverside, occurring March 14-18, 2018. #ASEH2018 by Anna Zeide, author of Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in …
The latest issue of California History, guest edited by Leonard Schmieding (Georgetown University) and Shana Klein (Georgetown University), explores the surprisingly untold histories of San Francisco’s restaurant landscape in the twentieth century. The …
excerpted from A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker This October we are celebrating National Cookbook Month by exploring the history of the cookbook genre. Check back …
excerpted from A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker This October we are celebrating National Cookbook Month by exploring the history of the cookbook genre. Check back …