The following is an article from Uncle John's Triu...  ...bread. Bread is thought to be the first processed food in human history , and it’s still the world’s largest s...  ...it’s still the world’s largest single food category—more people eat some...

The name of the actual post is Who Knew? The History of Baking Powder Is Incredibly Dramatic, but I co...  ...ect of the book Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking by food historian Linda Civitello. Jezebel talked with Ci...

F. Nephi Grigg grew up producing potatoes and corn...  ...In the 1940s, he understood the future of frozen food and opened a flash-freezing plant in Oregon with...

Brush up on the origins of your favorite eats! 1. PopcornMore than 4,000 years old, the earliest popcorn kernels were discovered in a Mexican bat cave once occupied by the Cochise Indians. The practice of popping corn...

We've covered the history of margarine, but the development of real dairy b...  ...or at least more of it. There's a lot more to the history of butter, as you'll see in an excerpt from the b...  ...ll see in an excerpt from the book Butter: A Rich History by Elaine Khosrova, a...

Mode has moved beyond fashions in its 100 Years series. Here we have a supposedly representative meal for every decade from 1915 to 2015. I don’t know how representative it can be of family dinners without a Big Ma...

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from...  ...jobs," the Nebraska native told Los Angeles Times food reporter Sergio Ortiz in 1999. "If they don't lik...  ...(Though then again, it wasn't easy—Clorox food scientists spent nearly a decade trying to get i...  ...Malcom Gladwell. It became a hit...

When the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, food for the workers was commissioned from all parts o...  ...housands. Pigs, however, would not have found the food or shade they needed along the way. The state cou...  ...thing because it left poor isolated villages with food for them...

There was a time when women’s magazines were...  ...containing Jell-O. It seems strange now, but the history of the food can shed some light on the craze. Making gelatin...  ...two trends that collided successfully: processed foods and the rise of the middle class. Housew...

What’s more American than a hamburger? Maybe...  ...that catered to new arrivals in search of comfort food . The vendors preserved the steak plate in its ori...  ...ate in its original form—an actual plate of food , served with a fork. Authentic, but as Motz notes...  ...were ups and downs for the bu...