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.
Listen to THE HISTORY OF FOOD in full in the Spotify app
Music for this episode performed by Dariush Talai
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Science Magazine – Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains in Iran
\nOxford Handbooks – Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire
\n\nZoroastrian Heritage Blog – Achaemenian Persian King’s Table
\nHealth and Fitness History – Ancient Persian Nutrition
\nThe Unmanly Chef – History of Food in Iran
\nEncyclopedia Britannica – Ancient Iran
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Welcome to the second Season of the History of Food!
\nTo kick things off, we’ll be walking ground we’ve tread before. The history of pastoral nomadism, that is the animal herders in Europe, Asia, and Africa, has frequently come up in our studies of urban civilizations, but until now, we’ve always looked at them from inside the city walls.
\nWell, not today. Today, we do our best to head out on the open road, to study the herders and the wanderers, the cheesemakers and the yogurt drinkers, and the monumental effect they had on human history, from their own perspective. Come listen!
\n\nAVAILABLE ON ITUNES and GOOGLE PLAY.
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Journal of Young Investigators: Our Furry Friends: the History of Animal Domestication
\nmaptia.com:Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya
\nNomads and the Outside World – Anatoly M. Khazanov
\nLive Science – Nomads in Surprisingly Good Health Despite Poor Diet
\nFUTURITY – Silk Road Nomads Ate Way Better than City Dwellers
\nNATL GEOGRAPHIC – We Are What We Eat: The High Altitude Diet of Afghanistan’s Nomads
\nNatl. Historic Cheesemaking Center: History of Cheese
\nTedEd: A Brie(f) History of Cheese – Paul Kindstedt
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\nCome listen to find out more.
\n\nMusic for this episode performed by Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. His albums An Ancient Lyre, The Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre, andThe Ancient Egyptian Harp are available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON ITUNES and GOOGLE PLAY.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
“Cooking in Ancient Civilizations” by Cathy Kaufman
\n\nThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
\nJohn E. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)
\nClaire Holleran, Shopping in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press)‘
\nInvicta Channel, Everyday Moments In History: A Roman Soldier Prepares his Dinner
\n","id":"3QUoQoIHVw2wp0YQ9wbbIt","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a2a665ba3578ead055cf7eca6","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f2a665ba3578ead055cf7eca6","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d2a665ba3578ead055cf7eca6","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 11: Bread and Circuses, but Mostly Bread (Rome)","release_date":"2018-10-24","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:3QUoQoIHVw2wp0YQ9wbbIt"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/1338370eb8f60821652186959630a0dab9b9ac1a","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"Of all the food discoveries made across the ancient world, few are more impressive than the domestication and then nixtamlization of maize (corn) in the lands that would one day be called Mexico and Central America. Mesoamerica is one of just three places where urban civilization evolved from scratch. Come listen, and be amazed how … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 10: Hombres de Maíz (Mesoamerica)\"","duration_ms":3420578,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rvJ9gIlxxVnF2zkKAOwGS"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/1rvJ9gIlxxVnF2zkKAOwGS","html_description":"
Of all the food discoveries made across the ancient world, few are more impressive than the domestication and then nixtamlization of maize (corn) in the lands that would one day be called Mexico and Central America.
\nMesoamerica is one of just three places where urban civilization evolved from scratch. Come listen, and be amazed how it happened.
\n\nMusic for this episode performed by Ricardo Lozano and Jorge Ramos.
\nOlmec Civilization – Ancient History Encyclopedia
\nSmithsonian – What We Know About the Earliest History of Chocolate
\nTHE COMPLICATED EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF SPICY CHILI PEPPERS – Harvard.edu
\nFood Timeline – Aztec and Maya
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What does it mean to be a raw (barbarian) person vs. a cooked (civilized) person? To find out, our culinary and historical journey heads east. Far East, to the lands of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. Ancient China.
\n\nGuzheng music for this episode performed by musician Bei Bei in Los Angeles, California and by Sound of China Guzheng Instruments
\n“State Emergence in Early China” by Li Liu
\nThought Co., The Origins and History of Rice in China and Beyond
\nThought Co., Soybeans (Glycine max) – The Plant History of the Marvelous Soybean
\nSoybean domestication: the origin, genetic architecture and molecular bases
\nBBC News, Oldest Noodles Unearthed in China
\nTop China Travel, History of Chinese Cuisine
\nFlavor and Fortune, Han Dynasty Cuisine
\n","id":"4QFYD3vMq0GRWMZursISuN","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a8f61afe510bb4d90321b29a9","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f8f61afe510bb4d90321b29a9","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d8f61afe510bb4d90321b29a9","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 9: Raw and Cooked (China)","release_date":"2018-07-23","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:4QFYD3vMq0GRWMZursISuN"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/ae15f116b8453b6e9c2af2af261f52cff59a3f6b","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"No civilization lasts forever. In fact, it’s kind of a miracle any starts at all. The conditions must be exactly right for people to come together into urban environments. So like an overextended, teetering Jenga tower, it’s not if but when the whole system will fall, as it did again and again across history. Come … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 8: Hunger and Collapse (Mesopotamia and Bronze Age)\"","duration_ms":3376262,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MPOXgA9pvqQhTx5emJ9No"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/2MPOXgA9pvqQhTx5emJ9No","html_description":"
No civilization lasts forever. In fact, it’s kind of a miracle any starts at all. The conditions must be exactly right for people to come together into urban environments. So like an overextended, teetering Jenga tower, it’s not if but when the whole system will fall, as it did again and again across history.
\nCome listen as we go back to explore the Neolithic, the history of Mesopotamia after Sumer, and finally the Bronze Age, to understand the riddle of why the rise of civilizations is so tied to their collapse.
\n\nTheme music by Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. This rendition of the Hurian Hymn, the oldest known piece of sheet music, and the whole album “An Ancient Lyre” and much more is available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline
\nAgainst the Grain by James C. Scott
\nFOOD, ECONOMY AND SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN THE BRONZE AGE WORLD: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY
\nHistory Today: Famine in the Ancient Mediterranean
\nAncient World Magazine: The Evolution of Sumerian Kingship
\nHow Farming Almost Destroyed Civilization
\nFamine and Upheaval in the Bronze Age
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","id":"2MPOXgA9pvqQhTx5emJ9No","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8acc354c603d4a3d209b507b0f","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fcc354c603d4a3d209b507b0f","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68dcc354c603d4a3d209b507b0f","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 8: Hunger and Collapse (Mesopotamia and Bronze Age)","release_date":"2018-06-16","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:2MPOXgA9pvqQhTx5emJ9No"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/50770b7c3795e9fe8d12cffd3e5e3a2db6ffe992","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"Here we are at last, on the shores of Greece. It’s a brief retelling of Aegean history, a story you’ve heard before, though perhaps not from a chef’s point of view. Come for the history, stay for the foods that made them special. By mastering the sea, the olive, and the grape vine, the Greeks … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 7: Age of the Aegean (Greece)\"","duration_ms":3208021,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/1vYqkbKMJtKeyPxpmjwiUK"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/1vYqkbKMJtKeyPxpmjwiUK","html_description":"
Here we are at last, on the shores of Greece.
\nIt’s a brief retelling of Aegean history, a story you’ve heard before, though perhaps not from a chef’s point of view. Come for the history, stay for the foods that made them special. By mastering the sea, the olive, and the grape vine, the Greeks found their own winds toward civilization.
\n\nMusic by Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. His original composition “Plato’s Symposium” and the whole album The Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre and much more are available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON ITUNES and GOOGLE PLAY.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
“Cooking in Ancient Civilizations” by Cathy Kaufman
\n“A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage
\nFacts and Details- Ancient Greece
\nThe Ancient Greek Roots of Feta Cheese
\n","id":"1vYqkbKMJtKeyPxpmjwiUK","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a3c8880ff5acf5b0b120d33ac","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f3c8880ff5acf5b0b120d33ac","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d3c8880ff5acf5b0b120d33ac","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 7: Age of the Aegean (Greece)","release_date":"2018-05-01","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:1vYqkbKMJtKeyPxpmjwiUK"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/63a6eec266691cb7058e4475e875a1b68639be77","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"Egypt needs no introduction. But here’s one anyway! The ancient people along the Nile built a civilization out of grain like Mesopotamia, but diverged on their own unique path, transforming their food surplus into the greatest monuments the world has ever seen. An overview of Ancient Egyptian history in its entirety, through the lens of … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 6: Lands of the Nile (Egypt)\"","duration_ms":2744762,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VFSARn5x8c4lHQOXqvKUd"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/0VFSARn5x8c4lHQOXqvKUd","html_description":"Egypt needs no introduction. But here’s one anyway! The ancient people along the Nile built a civilization out of grain like Mesopotamia, but diverged on their own unique path, transforming their food surplus into the greatest monuments the world has ever seen. An overview of Ancient Egyptian history in its entirety, through the lens of food and cooking.
\n\nMusic by Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. His original composition “Awe of the Aten” and the whole album The Ancient Egyptian Harp and much more are available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON ITUNES.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
Cooking in Ancient Civilizations
\n\n\n“Pyramid of Khufu”, KHANACADEMY
","id":"0VFSARn5x8c4lHQOXqvKUd","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a038a225a5dfa79ffb1aa69c1","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f038a225a5dfa79ffb1aa69c1","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d038a225a5dfa79ffb1aa69c1","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 6: Lands of the Nile (Egypt)","release_date":"2018-03-27","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:0VFSARn5x8c4lHQOXqvKUd"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/553e26f79ec11f75ec4a7358aeb56e0c32ebeb70","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"Sumer was the oldest urban civilization, but not by much. Second place followed quickly, and incredibly was across the ocean in South America. People on the coast of modern Peru kickstarted a multi-millennium wave of Andean civilization, passing down a legacy of culture, religion, and cuisine all the way down to the Incas, and do … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 5: Un Otro Mundo (Andean Civilization)\"","duration_ms":2171809,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/34TDtASW5aXLFHDEA7vE9d"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/34TDtASW5aXLFHDEA7vE9d","html_description":"Sumer was the oldest urban civilization, but not by much. Second place followed quickly, and incredibly was across the ocean in South America.
\nPeople on the coast of modern Peru kickstarted a multi-millennium wave of Andean civilization, passing down a legacy of culture, religion, and cuisine all the way down to the Incas, and do so with methods that will turn everything anthropologists thought they knew about civilization on its head.
\nWe’ve neglected the Andeans thus far, but no longer. It’s time to take a closer look.
\n\nAVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD AND ITUNES.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
\n\n\nTHE POTATO CROP, “History of the Potato”
\nOXFORD REFERENCE Timeline of Andean Civilization
\nANCIENT ORIGINS, “The Norte Chico Civilization: Ancient Peruvian Civilization or Complex Society?”
\nENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, “The Moche”
\nNPR: “The Ancient Andean Tradition of Eating Clay May Have Helped To Protect Health”
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","id":"34TDtASW5aXLFHDEA7vE9d","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a26119649342a20dc442beabb","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f26119649342a20dc442beabb","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d26119649342a20dc442beabb","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 5: Un Otro Mundo (Andean Civilization)","release_date":"2018-02-20","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:34TDtASW5aXLFHDEA7vE9d"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/6822d6252600bedeed084d4192ece88ac4b93e97","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"We’ve done it. We’ve finally crossed into the realm of written records and recorded history. Join me on an odyssey going back 6,000 years ago, when the Sumerians of what is today southern Iraq, took a mega-surplus of grain and transformed it directly into wealth and power. In the process, they managed to invent cities, … Continue reading \"HOF Episode 4: How to Turn Food into Wealth (Sumer)\"","duration_ms":2618526,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/1npvapZ5IlYCICs9t6UvCS"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/1npvapZ5IlYCICs9t6UvCS","html_description":"
We’ve done it. We’ve finally crossed into the realm of written records and recorded history. Join me on an odyssey going back 6,000 years ago, when the Sumerians of what is today southern Iraq, took a mega-surplus of grain and transformed it directly into wealth and power. In the process, they managed to invent cities, urbanism, and all the trappings modern civilization. (Not to mention the first written recipes and cookbooks)
\n\nTheme music by the incredible Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. This rendition of the Hurian Hymn, the oldest known piece of sheet music, and the whole album “An Ancient Lyre” and much more is available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD AND ITUNES.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
(Fun note: this is the era and society that produced the banner art for this website, a royal banquet in Mesopotamia)
\nBIBLIOGRAPHY
\nUruk: the First City, by Mario Liverani
\nRichard Bulliet’s “History of the World” lectures, from Columbia University
\n\nCooking in Ancient Civilizations
\n\nAncient Grain Reveals the Development of the Earliest Cities, ScienceNordic 10/3/17
","id":"1npvapZ5IlYCICs9t6UvCS","images":[{"height":640,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a4a50d5a19c1aada4e4142ace","width":640},{"height":300,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f4a50d5a19c1aada4e4142ace","width":300},{"height":64,"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000f68d4a50d5a19c1aada4e4142ace","width":64}],"is_externally_hosted":false,"is_paywall_content":false,"is_playable":true,"language":"en-US","languages":["en-US"],"name":"HOF Episode 4: How to Turn Food into Wealth (Sumer)","release_date":"2018-01-15","release_date_precision":"day","type":"episode","uri":"spotify:episode:1npvapZ5IlYCICs9t6UvCS"},{"audio_preview_url":"https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/aeaff47a0ff18086eeb0af6af38e2fd3421de063","content_type":"PODCAST_EPISODE","description":"Come travel around the world and follow the Neolithic cultures that spread across it, including very early farmers of Egypt, China, and Old Europe. Then come across the oceans to Mesoamerica, one of two places in the world civilization was invented from scratch, a whole society built on what became the number one crop of all time: corn.","duration_ms":3059033,"explicit":false,"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nbjbSxM2kjALKQb1HIaau"},"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/episodes/3nbjbSxM2kjALKQb1HIaau","html_description":"At last, the third episode of the History of Food is here!
\n\nCome travel around the world and follow the Neolithic cultures that spread across it, including very early farmers of Egypt, China, and Old Europe. Then come across the oceans to Mesoamerica, one of two places in the world civilization was invented from scratch, a whole society built on what became the number one crop of all time: corn.
\nAn, ahem, “ancient” poem about it:
\nThree beans for the Mayan Kings, under the sky
\nSeven squash for the Olmec lords, with their heads of stone
\nNine avocados for Aztec men, doomed to die.
\nAnd one for the corn lord on his corn throne.
One crop to rule them all
\nOne crop to find them
\nOne crop to bring them all,
\nAnd in the milpa bind them.
Theme music by the incredible Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. This rendition of the Hurian Hymn, the oldest known piece of sheet music, and the whole album “An Ancient Lyre” and much more is available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON SOUNDCLOUD AND ITUNES.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
\n\nThe Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC
\n\nPale Blue Dot, a Vision of the Human Future in Space
\nCooking in Ancient Civilizations
\n\nFacts and Details, Ancient China
\nA Comprehensive History of Soy
\nInstitute of Archaeology: Archaic Period of Mesoamerica
\nMaya To Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
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Theme music by the incredible Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. This rendition of the Hurian Hymn, the oldest known piece of sheet music, and the whole album “An Ancient Lyre” and much more is available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
\nThe Origins of Agriculture in the Near East
\n\nCooking in Ancient Civilizations
\nEvolution of Domesticated Bread Wheat
\nEarly Domestic Fig in the Jordan Valley
\nFacts and Details: Early Man and Ancient History
\nWheat Domestication: the History and Origins of Floury Grains
\nA Brief History of Fermentation
\nCommon pulse crops in the late Neolithic
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Theme music by the incredible Michael Levy of Ancient Lyre. This rendition of the Hurian Hymn, the oldest known piece of sheet music, and the whole album “An Ancient Lyre” and much more is available from all major digital music stores and streaming sites.
\nAVAILABLE ON SOUDNCLOUD AND ITUNES.
\nPlease leave a review to help spread the word!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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http://www.persee.fr/doc/paleo_0153-9345_1991_num_17_1_4537
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\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-the-sea-saved-humanity-2012-12-07/
http://boingboing.net/2009/12/16/how-shellfish-saved.html
\nhttp://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter
\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cooking-up-bigger-brains/
\n\nhttp://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/52-02-3/s3amib2.gif
\nhttps://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2016/3/meat-eating-among-the-earliest-humans
\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/mortar-pestle-object-lesson/423852/
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