Learn how microscopic food traces in ancient pottery reveal the varied ingredients of prehistoric European cuisine.

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a ...

Something fascinating is happening in kitchens around the world. While everyone was busy perfecting their sourdough starters during quarantine, a much bigger food revolution was quietly brewing.

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

6,000-year-old pottery reveals prehistoric humans cooked gourmet food with plants and fish, offering new insight into ancient ...

I recently watched my grandmother make bread in her clay oven, a technique passed down through generations in our family.

To cook on stone is to accept that food has its own rhythm. The stone must be heated fully, respected carefully, cooled patiently. Burns happen if you rush; rewards arrive if you wait. It is primal, ...

Leftovers can tell us a lot about how a species lived. In the case of Neanderthals, there are few archaeological traces of how they processed and ate small prey, like birds. This paucity of evidence ...

Lingering ‘idle men’ who hung about outside restaurants preceded today’s delivery drivers; others had their food sent using ...

Ancient practices state that you become what you eat and how you eat. The key to a disease-free body is to eat right at the ...