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A newly analyzed cuneiform hymn accompanied a drinking song dedicated to a female tavern-keeper
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These innovative recipes entice the taste buds for every meal of the day
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Globally, it seems that this gendered division of cookery is an American thing
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The product was a life-saving technology that avoided the transmission of disease from communal "tin dippers"
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Where do Mayor Michael Bloomberg's statistics come from? People underestimate junk food and overestimate healthy food in dietary surveys
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These elder-containing concoctions, credited with reviving a taste for liqueurs, came about as folk remedies
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Make a fuss in the road and someone will appear. Spit out some gibberish about “fromage a vendre,” and that should do it. You'll get your cheese
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Ambergris, the subject of a new book, "is aromatic—both woody and floral. The smell reminds me of leaf litter on a forest floor."
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In 1901, a 17-year-old Russian discovered the gas that tells fruits to ripen
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Chefs and scientists try to solve the ultimate culinary puzzle
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It might be predictable that hamburger is considered a masculine food, but what about rabbit or orange juice?
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Sauternes is a village near Bordeaux that would have been cow town if dumb luck, microclimatology and royal wineries had not showered the region in fortune
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One of the first recipes for ketchup published in the United States called for "love apples"
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The sinking of the Alvin was an accident that demonstrated the promise of a novel food preservation method
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If you've only had the pleasure of eating a bowl of gumbo, queue up some Beausoleil and prepare some of these specialties
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Curious about the middle ground between fresh and rotten? These four books tell you how to preserve the fleeting tastes of spring
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Forget Chicago deep-dish, Roman pizza bianca and Domino's. For the best, most authentic pizza, go to Napoli
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Salt, it may be useful to know, cures a zombie
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I spoke with author Mark Kurlansky about the quirky inventor who changed the way we eat
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If it looks like a black truffle, and if it cost you $1,500 a pound like a black truffle---it may actually be a worthless Chinese truffle
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