Every dish you love has a past that nobody told you about. Myths, stolen recipes, accidental inventions, and the inconvenient truths behind the food on your plate. Jean Louis has been cooking professionally for decades and reading food history for just as long. He is done staying quiet about what he knows.
The ancient Greeks had laws governing olive oil quality so specific they named grades and punished adulteration as a civic crime. The bottle in... read more >>
Mecca in 1511, London in 1675, Prussia in 1777. Each time, a different authority decided coffee had to be stopped. Each time, the official... read more >>
A rough-skinned tuber from the Andes that Europeans spent two centuries refusing to eat ended up doubling populations, feeding armies, and supplying the factories... read more >>
The pizza everyone orders was named for a queen in 1889. But the combination of tomato, mozzarella and basil already existed in Naples before... read more >>
Cheese exists because someone noticed what a ruminant's stomach does to milk. That accidental chemistry became the foundation of an industry that moved more... read more >>
Popcorn has been eaten in the Americas for at least six thousand years. The ancient Peruvian coast, the Aztec markets, the Iroquois nations all... read more >>
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