Food: A Cultural Culinary History: Recent Episodes
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Food: A Cultural Culinary History, Learn how the entirety of human civilization—war, trade, politics, art, religion, and more—has been shaped by our interaction with food in this delicious course.
On this episode of The Torch, we discuss the history of ISIS as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda, why ISIS calls itself a caliphate; the source of their wealth and power; whether their goal of a pan-Islamic state is achievable,
With almost 400,000 known species and thousands more identified every year, the variety of plant life is almost overwhelming—from the microscopic to the largest organism on Earth. In Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany,
On this episode of The Torch, examine what food science can really teach us about the health implications of what we eat.
In episode one of Food: A Cultural Culinary History, we're going to consider food as a catalyst in human history, and what our food choices reveal about our values and ambitions.
The transition to agriculture is perhaps humanity’s single most important social revolution - and one that was not without its tradeoffs. In episode 2 of Food: A Cultural Culinary History we're going to explore the factors surrounding the rise of agric...