Italian Frittata made with spinach, tomatoes, onion, and peppers on white wooden table with folded red and white cloth - etorres/Shutterstock The ancient Romans were different from us modern humans in ...

It only took about 7,000 years, but quinoa has finally arrived in the American mainstream. This ancient grain first cultivated in the Andes has transformed from a trendy superfood to a genuine pantry ...

For thousands of years, humans have grown, cooked, and enjoyed certain foods that are still part of our diets today. These ancient staples have lasted through generations because they’re nourishing, ...

"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) ...

Unearthed from the graves of children, many ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in nurseries today. Some have little feet, and one bottle’s spout juts from a ...

In 1867, a bottle of Roman wine was discovered in a sarcophagus near Speyer, Germany. This wine, dating back to around 325 CE, is the oldest known wine still in liquid form. The secret to its ...

The word "aphrodisiac" itself, which refers to foods that aid in sexual function, comes from the ancient Greek goddess of ...

Because I need to branch out of Gotham a little bit, I decided on working in a city named “Meriden” – a few of you may be familiar with this geographical location – with some super cool EMTs and ...

Researchers have found one of the oldest known cheeses at a Bronze Age mummy site, offering new clues about what could be ...

Along with analyzing ancient leftovers, Evershed and his collaborators tackled the challenge of disentangling environmental contamination from food signatures. Decades ago, Evershed’s team cooked up ...