A few years ago, I was working on a story about bread soup when I stumbled upon a gold mine of culinary research called the Food Timeline. An obsessively catalogued, exhaustively comprehensive ...

In the long timeline of human civilization, here’s roughly how things shook out: First, there was fire, water, ice, and salt. Then we started cooking up and chowing down on oysters, scallops, ...

Virginia is now home to one of the most extraordinary food documents ever compiled by a single human. Perhaps, if you were curious one day about the invention of cheese, you’ve already found it. The ...