"Prehistoric Europeans spiced their cooking" Topic
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Tango01 | 22 Aug 2013 10:07 p.m. PST |
"Researchers found evidence for garlic mustard in the residues left on ancient pottery shards discovered in what is now Denmark and Germany. The spice was found alongside fat residues from meat and fish. Writing in the journal Plos One, the scientists make the case that garlic mustard contains little nutritional value and therefore must have been used to flavour the foods
" Full article here link Who will have been the first renowned chef? (smile). Amicalement Armand |
pigbear | 23 Aug 2013 3:03 a.m. PST |
Haven't read the original article but I read a nice news item about it in Nature. The method used to identify the plant species was quite fascinating. I wasn't aware that phytoliths, microscopic mineral deposits in plant cells, can be used to identify species in the absence of DNA. They are visible with a scanning electron microscope and can be compared with images of phytoliths from known species and the size and shape of them can be used for the purposes of identification. I had no idea. |
79thPA | 23 Aug 2013 6:14 a.m. PST |
So now they have worse breath than I originally thought. |
goragrad | 23 Aug 2013 2:45 p.m. PST |
But didn't have to worry as much about vampires. |
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