Antichi frammenti di ceramica rivelano la passione preistorica per il miele

A chemical analysis by international researchers of African pottery shards suggests that humans were collecting and storing honey roughly 3,500 years ago. … While some surviving cave paintings from Africa and Spain depict humans interacting with bees and honeycombs sometime between 40,000 to 8,000 years ago, sturdier evidence on the timeline detailing humankind’s early appreciation for honey has been hard to come by, which is why a team of international researchers was excited to stumble across exactly that – even if such a discovery was not at all what they were looking for. […]

Around the Table: The Making and Knowing Project

All of this underscores a key point about recipes as texts: they are texts of action, and to fully read them, we have to get our hands dirty, however imperfect our modern ingredients and bodies may be for the job. The knowledge encoded in recipes is practical and, to use Pamela Smith’s term, emergent: it unfolds not in the reading, but in the doing. At best, reconstruction allows us glimpses into past worlds of materials and expertise […] All of this underscores a key point about recipes as texts: they are texts of action, and to fully read them, we have to get our hands dirty, however imperfect our modern ingredients and bodies may be for the job. The knowledge encoded in recipes is practical and, to use Pamela Smith’s term, emergent: it unfolds not in the reading, but in the doing. At best, reconstruction allows us glimpses into past worlds of materials and expertise […]

UC San Diego Digitalizza i materiali nella sua Collezione culinaria dell’American Institute of Wine and Food

Cuochi, panettieri e storici della cucina di tutto il mondo hanno ora accesso immediato online a quasi 100 volumi della collezione culinaria dell’American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF) della UC San Diego Library. Guidato da Collezioni Speciali e Archivi (SC&A), questo progetto di digitalizzazione ha permesso alla Biblioteca di condividere […]

7 Wondrous Breads to Make When You’re Tired of Sourdough

This bread comes with a side of fortune-telling. With active dry yeast in short supply, many home-bakers who are sheltering in place have succumbed to the siren song of sourdough. But people have produced bread without yeast across history, cultures, and climes, leaving an incredible array of styles to […]