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Inventing the Restaurant: From Bone Broth to Michelin (podcast)

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Humans Were Roasting Starchy Root Vegetables 170,000 Years Ago

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The Surprisingly Interesting History of Margarine

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U.S. growers got their first date plants from Morocco, Syria and Algeria

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History of pizza

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Thousands of historic watercolor paintings of fruit now online

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First African-American to dine at White House

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How steak became manly and salads became feminine

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The first successful frozen dinner wasn’t from Swanson

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When U.S. Presidents began to be seen eating

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A history of women in restaurants

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The history of the refrigerator

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How Armenian Immigrants Built an American Candy Empire

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Penny restaurants fed the hungry during the Depression

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Ancient humans stored leftovers at least 200,000 years ago

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Food Conservation During WWI

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If war is hell, coffee is salvation

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Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century

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Why So Many Diners Look Like Train Cars

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The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice

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If you love kiwi, jackfruit or jicama, thank this woman

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Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles

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Enslaved children’s diet in 1850s Virginia

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Movie theatres start selling food during the Depression

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How Did Food Stamps Begin?

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Coca-Cola on trial in 1911 charged with being injurious to health

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The discovery of umami, the fifth taste

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Yeast recovered from 1886 shipwreck used to brew new ale

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Wild turkeys have made a comeback

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Bakers banned from selling sliced bread during World War II

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Bananas became a dietary staple as a health food

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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 full text

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Developing tasty foods for NASA astronauts took years

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Green Books guided black Americans to welcoming restaurants and inns

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The Troubled History of Horse Meat in America

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Tasty menu at Alcatraz federal prison in September 1946

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New York City guts successful school lunch program in 1919

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Ancient barley in Finland shows hunter-gatherers also farmed 5,000 years ago

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Demand for spices in Middle Ages drove globalization

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Bread discovered that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

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History of airline meals began in 1919

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Swedish engineer invents the juice box

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California postman discovered the Hass avocado

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When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan

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Sealing fruit with coatings like wax goes back more than 900 years

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Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life

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Ketchup revolutionized way food is grown, processed and regulated in the U.S.

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Eleanor Roosevelt does TV commercial for margarine

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The chicken experiment that radically changed meat production

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Did the introduction of iodized salt raise IQs by 15 points in the U.S. Goiter Belt?

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How Fish and Chips Migrated to Great Britain

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The “Poison Squad” men who tested food additives on themselves

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First attack against Nestle for discouraging breastfeeding

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George Washington’s mess kit from Revolutionary War

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One of First Vitamin-Fortified Breakfast Cereals

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The Ornate Ice Cream Saloons That Served Unchaperoned Women

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Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

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Short history of ketchup

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Urban development shaped the way 19th-century New Yorkers ate

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How companies influenced what women baked

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Benjamin Franklin gives up eating meat for a time

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How U.S. meat industry has protected itself by cost-cutting

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John Glenn’s first space meals crumbled and floated around

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Were insects a major food source for early humans?

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Cookbook that Inspired Generations of Black Cooks

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How apples came to be sold on street corners during the Great Depression

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The passage in “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair that sickened America in 1906

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Chestnut trees victim of ecological disaster in 1904

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When commercial baby food became popular in the United States

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Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Encouraged Growth of Chinese Restaurants

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Did an ancient mutation let us consume alcohol?

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All of the World’s Yeast Probably Originated in China

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Did an ancient mutation let us consume alcohol?

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All of the World’s Yeast Probably Originated in China

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Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal 5,300 years ago

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Mississippi convicts pardoned for eating diet suspected of causing pellagra

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Toxic amounts of Vitamin A in Polar Bear Liver

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Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine probably came from South America

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History of School Lunch programs in the United States

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Cause of “milk sickness” that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother

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How About a Vitamin D-Enriched Beer?

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Busted! Sent to federal prison for coloring margarine

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Did calorie miscalculation doom Scott at the South Pole in 1912?

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Ex-slave Nancy Green becomes “Aunt Jemima”

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No more bread-and-water punishment in Navy

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