History of food

Customs, flavors and rituals linking food to the sacred and divine had an enormous upheaval during the time of Alexander the Great.

Rice is one of the most important foods worldwide, with everyone aware of its value all over the globe; but this pearly white cereal took a long time to become part of ancient European cultures, with many years passing...

Athenaeus of Naucratis in his famous work "Deipnosophists", stated sarcastically that the fault of the decline of Sparta lay with its cooks, who because of the influence of the Roman Empire, lost the ability to prepare the traditional recipes...

Macaroni, the ancestor of pasta, like so many other things in our world today, had its symbolic birth in Greece. This is the eighth in a series of stories by a Greek-Italian chef tracing the origins of Greek foods...

Italian cuisine and Greek cuisine: the history, differences and common traits in the cuisines we all love is a fascinating journey into the past, showing that there was a fusion of Greek-Italian cuisine in historical times that comes down to...

Outside of Asia Minor and the Balkans, it is rare to hear about this ancient concoction, precisely because it is so very characteristic of these countries. By Giorgio Pintzas Monzani This is the sixth in a series of stories on the...

With the green light for the production and introduction of the first edible insects into European markets, conflicting opinions were rife.

Alexander the Great had an enormous influence on the ancient world as a result of the Greek conqueror's military campaigns, including Egypt.