Clik here to view.
DESIGN AND MARKET INFLUENCES - FACTORS AFFECTING PEOPLE'S CHOICE OF FOOD.
Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this chapter you should have developed a knowledge and understanding of the health, dietary, socio-economic, cultural and religious factors that affect people’s choice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LA MEDICINA DEI BARBARI
Le invasioni barbariche devastarono l'Europa ancora legata alla cultura latina. Eppure, vi furono anche fenomeni positivi; una "cultura medica" esisteva anche presso gli invasori.I Goti, per esempio,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LES MOINES,VRAI HÉROS DU MOYEN ÂGE
Quand ils ne sont pas occupés à prier, ils défrichent, innovent et se lancent dans les affaires. Du Xle au XIIIe siècle, les moines inventent la France moderne. Bien joué les frères!Une nuit d'hiver de...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PRIMEIRA EXPORTAÇÃO DE CARNE CONGELADA DO BRASIL
Leopoldo CostaEm 1914, efetuou-se a primeira exportação experimental de carne congelada brasileira para a Inglaterra. A Europa estava preparando-se para a Grande Guerra e precisava de suprimentos.A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WAS JESUS MARRIED?
"Marie Madeleine" by Roger van der Weyden“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” – GEORGE (MARY ANNE EVANS) ELIOTam well aware that many of my readers will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FOOD AID
Food aid is a resource provided on concessionary terms in the formof, or for the provision of, food. In accounting categories, international food aid is a cross-border flow that is an entry into a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CUISINE AND CULTURE - ANCIENT GREECE
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEAThe Mediterranean Sea was the center of cuisine and culture for the Greeks and Romans. The word Mediterranean means middle (medi) of the earth (terra), and the sea connected the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RETRATO ECONÔMICO DO BRASIL EM 1995
Terminal de contâineres do porto de Santos em 1995Leopoldo CostaPanorama MacroeconomicoA abertura da economia ao mercado internacional e a estabilidade monetária, proporcionada pelo Plano Real,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HOW THE FOOD GIANTS HOOKED YOU “NO SUGAR, NO FAT, NO SALES”
Ellen Wartella was never one for processed foods. She took cooking classes, and both she and her husband loved to spend time in the kitchen. Together, they plied their two sons with homemade dinners,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LIQUID-BONE JAB MAY PREVENT BREAKS IN ELDERLY
Scientists are developing a “liquid bone” that could be injected into people affected by bone-thinning diseases such as osteoporosis.The paste-like material consists of tiny hollow spheres of calcium...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HOW TO BOIL WATER
I woke up this morning utterly parched with thirst. It was one of those cold mornings in San Francisco, gloomy and gray. Even though the blankets were wrapped around me, I was shivering and AJ had gone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHY THE CHINESE DON'T HAVE DESSERT?
In trendy San Francisco, the latest hip dessert is ice cream made with unusual flavors, like the banana-bacon ice cream served at Humphry Slocombe down on Twenty-Fourth Street. Bacon has been appearing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SENSUAL EATING WITH CHOCOLATE
I was giving a “Sensual Eating” seminar at a conference of administrators who get totally geeked out over rules, procedures, and policy positions. Nice, huh? About 150 stuffy people, sitting in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE MEDIEVAL COOK - THE COTTAGE COOK
Ill huswiferie pineth,not having to eate.Good huswiferie dineth,With plentie of meate.Thomas Tusser "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry" (1573)The medieval period covered many centuries and was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ADAM AND EVE
Character OverviewAccording to the monotheistic religions (those religions that believe there is only one god) of the Middle East, the first man and woman that God created were the couple named Adam...
View ArticleClik here to view.
STUPID HISTORY- 50 TALES OF STUPIDITY
1.The Myth of Magellan After learning about Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492, we were taught that Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the world in a single trip (or circumnavigated the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HISTORY OF BARRELS IN MIDDLE AGES: A SURGE IN BARREL USE
"By the time of the Crusades [starting in 1095] wooden casks were the standard means of transporting all manner of liquids and provisions, and the cooper was coming into his own as one of the foremost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LES ÉPICES DANS L'HISTOIRE
La Reine de Saba, Sindbad le Marin, le Calife de Bagdad, Marco Polo : autant de figures légendaires qui évoquent les mystères de l'Orient fabuleux. Tous ont partie liée aux épices.1298: Venise et...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ANCIENNE ÉGYPTE - RELIGION ET HISTOIRE
Les emblèmesLa symbolique animale que ces documents associent aux étapes successives de la conquête témoigne d'une intégration immédiate du Mythe à l'Histoire. On a déduit une origine totémique de...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BRITISH CATTLE IN THE 18th CENTURY
In the previous two papers in this journal Grigson and Armitage descríbed how we believe that domestic cattle evolved and changed in Britain from the Neolithic through to the beginning of modern times....
View Article