Do you like to learn about the history of food?

Question

I do, i like watching the Travel and food channel because you learn about how it all got started. and suprisingly enough alot of the best food was made by peasents and poor people who had to make due with what they had.

Answer 1

Yes I very much like studying the history of food origins. When doing so it is sometimes surprising what, where, and who foods originated from.

It turns out many things that are giving credit to France and French Chefs are in fact from other areas of Europe. And today chefs around the world are as highly skilled and in many cases more talented than the famed French Chef. {I am not talking away from a great culinary history of France which continues today. But only giving credit to the rest of the culinary world.}

...surprisingly enough a lot of the best food was made by peasants and poor people who had to make due with what they had.
Yes also beer and wine. And we can thank women for beer [THANK YOU OX] as they were the Brewer or Brewster of the old ways. They brewed the household beers. Now that's a drink'n buddy.

History channel, Food Network, reading, etc...

Answer 2

Best Cookbook for history of food: "A Mediterranean Feast"by Clifford A Wright....the story of the birth of the celebrated cuisines of the mediterranean, from the merchants of venice to the barbary corsairs, w/ more than 500 recipes

Answer 3

Yes, I also love the travel and food channels, i like learning how to make different dishes.

Answer 4

Absolutely. Which is why I loved watching Good Eats on The Food Network.

Answer 5

Not really. Why should i care?
Besides, i don't have any travel or food channels to watch, so it's not like i could even if i wanted to.

Answer 6

Yes! The potato chip, for instance, legend has it, was invented by a chef in NY who happened to be an American Indian. So, it qualifies as native food. Ain't that great?

Answer 7

I haven't really thought about it but i would love to learn the history of food

Answer 8

I like doing that cause its always fun to find different facts about certain food. Specially some items have very interesting and fun history to them.

Answer 9

I am constantly pegged to any channel that pertains to food.

Answer 10

Yea I do. Im arabic so my mom makes all different kinds of foods. So when shes used to cook for us she would tell us a about how she first made it and who taught her and how it came to be.