Historians study food for many reasons, but Michael Collins likes to single one out in particular. “It speaks to the importance of the daily lives of common people,” said Collins, a Sacramento State ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will virtually host its sixth annual Food History Weekend and Gala Oct. 15–17, a multifaceted event that explores one of the most pressing current ...

In the long timeline of human civilization, here’s roughly how things shook out: First, there was fire, water, ice, and salt. Then we started cooking up and chowing down on oysters, scallops, ...

We’re told, from a young age, not to play with our food. It’s clear many artists never listened. Throughout time, their creative experiments with edible objects — from vegetable-based dyes on colorful ...

To order takeout from your favorite restaurant from an app on your phone may seem like a distinctly modern phenomenon. But food delivery has a history that extends far further back than the smartphone ...

Food is a protest that has community care and radical self-preservation at its core. And now, during an uprising in the midst of a pandemic, we must dig deep into our history and present resources to ...