Before the Pot, Before the Basket . . . the Gourd
It’s all very well to talk about how the use of fire changed the course of human evolution but then in the deep past, as now, standing in front of…
Read more“Plain and Simple:” The Ideal Diet for a Child According to John Locke
“As for [the child’s] diet, it ought to be very plain and simple,” said the philosopher and political theorist John Locke in 1693 in his Thoughts Concerning Education. Bread, bread,…
Read moreSo What is a Kitchen?
“What is a kitchen?” sounds like an easy question to answer, right? A kitchen is a room where you cook. Well, in fact, like everything, the history of food preparation…
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