Roman food – rich and poor
Roti bread made with millet Romans ate a lot of fish Although the first people who came to the Mediterranean were probably following along the coast, and ate mainly fish, shellfish, seaweed, and [...]
Roti bread made with millet Romans ate a lot of fish Although the first people who came to the Mediterranean were probably following along the coast, and ate mainly fish, shellfish, seaweed, and [...]
Greek goddess Demeter: A field of wheat growing What does "Demeter" mean? The Greek goddess Demeter is an earth goddess; her name is De, which means earth (the same word as Gaia) [...]
A field of millet What is millet? Millet is a kind of grain that grows wild in Africa and all across Europe and Asia. It grows about fifteen feet tall, [...]
History of Straw: loose straw in a pile What is straw made of? Straw is the dried stalks of tall grasses like wheat, millet or barley. After people harvested the [...]
History of farming: A field of wheat When did people start farming? People did not farm as a major way of getting food until around 12,000 BC. About that time, [...]
A T'ang Dynasty official's house This is a poem by Bai Juyi, written in China about 800 AD, during the late T'ang Dynasty: There came an officer knocking by night [...]
Chinese food Chinese food: rice Rice was the first grain that people farmed in China, and rice is such a basic food in China that the Chinese words for "cook" [...]
Qing Dynasty Chinese food: Chinese sweet potato noodles New traders come to China In 1506 AD, the first Portuguese sailing ships - led by Columbus' cousin - reached China, and [...]
Yuca plants after they're pulled up When Portuguese traders began to come to Africa around 1500 AD, they brought new foods with them from South America and Central America. They [...]
Kingdom of Ndongo In 1500 AD, some of the people who lived in what is now Angola were Bantu and some were San. A Bantu man from Congo, Kiluanje, probably started the [...]