THE HISTORY OF FOOD

By Holden Wilson

What makes us human? Humans are just animals who know how to cook. Come explore the story of humans and their civilizations through the lens of what they ate. Visit anthrochef.blog for recipes.

  1. 1.
    HOF Episode 27: A Day in the Life (of a Peasant Farmer)
    1:24:24
  2. 2.
    HOF Episode 26: Factory Food (Industrial Revolution)
    53:19
  3. 3.
    HOF Episode 25: The Soul of American Cooking (Colonial USA)
    1:19:36
  4. 4.
    HOF Episode 24: The Feeling of Fullness (Sub Saharan Africa)
    1:15:24
  5. 5.
    HOF Episode 23: The Great Sobering (Coffee and Colonialism)
    1:11:35
  6. 6.
    HOF Episode 22: Melting Pots and Fusion Foods (Globalization)
    1:10:43
  7. 7.
    HOF Episode 21: Umami and Kimchi (Japan and Korea)
    55:11
  8. 8.
    HOF Episode 20: The Columbian Exchange
    1:28:56
  1. 9.
    HOF Episode 19: Europe Wakes Up (The Renaissance)
    1:01:54
  2. 10.
    HOF Episode 18: Crusades and Plagues (later Middle Ages)
    55:23
  3. 11.
    HOF Episode 17: The Power of Tradition (China revisited)
    59:16
  4. 12.
    HOF Episode 16: The Dark Bread Ages (Medieval Europe)
    1:00:01
  5. 13.
    HOF Episode 15: Princes of Flavor (India)
    57:56
  6. 14.
    HOF Episode 14: People of the Book
    1:00:04
  7. 15.
    HOF Episode 13: Empire of Shepherds (Iran)
    53:57
  8. 16.
    HOF Episode 12: Herders of the Old World
    59:22
  9. 17.
    HOF Episode 11: Bread and Circuses, but Mostly Bread (Rome)
    1:16:17
  10. 18.
    HOF Episode 10: Hombres de Maíz (Mesoamerica)
    57:00
  11. 19.
    HOF Episode 9: Raw and Cooked (China)
    57:55
  12. 20.
    HOF Episode 8: Hunger and Collapse (Mesopotamia and Bronze Age)
    56:16
  13. 21.
    HOF Episode 7: Age of the Aegean (Greece)
    53:28
  14. 22.
    HOF Episode 6: Lands of the Nile (Egypt)
    45:44
  15. 23.
    HOF Episode 5: Un Otro Mundo (Andean Civilization)
    36:11
  16. 24.
    HOF Episode 4: How to Turn Food into Wealth (Sumer)
    43:38
  17. 25.
    HOF Episode 3: Early Farming Around the World
    50:59
  18. 26.
    HOF Episode 2: Gardeners of the Neolithic
    41:44
  19. 27.
    HOF Episode 1: Human Ancestors and Prehistoric Foragers
    32:31

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