SC - Re: .food riddle and query

[david friedman]

>Devra wrote:



> When I recently took a course on food and the history of cookbooks from
> Andrew Smtih (History of Ketchup, etc) he said that prehistoric man had
> located or domesticated all but two of the food items currently used.  One
> item he cited as added to the food group in historic times was coffee.  Our
> dates on that vary, but most seem to be after the start of the Common Era.
> However, he never told us the second food item that had entered man's
> knowledge after prehistoric times.  has anyone got any ideas?

I don't think we know it is true of coffee. It was apparently used in 
Abyssinia from early enough so that (so far as I can tell) we don't 
have a starting date.

Beyond that, I don't know how he defines "food items." Artichokes, 
for example, were presumably bred out of cardoons in the historic 
period--perhaps as late as the middle ages.  Baking powder is fairly 
recent.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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