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Watermelon is a sweet, commonly consumed fruit of summer, usually as fresh slices, diced in mixed fruit salads, or as juice. [53] [54] Watermelon juice can be blended with other fruit juices or made into wine. [55] The seeds have a nutty flavor and can be dried and roasted, or ground into flour. [9]
5-2 million years ago: Hominids shift away from the consumption of nuts and berries to begin the consumption of meat. [1] [2] A hearth with cooking utensils. 2.5-1.8 million years ago: The discovery of the use of fire may have created a sense of sharing as a group. Earliest estimate for invention of cooking, by phylogenetic analysis. [3]
Nov. 25—Today it's all about Cosmic Crisp apples, winter wheat and wine grapes, but 400 years ago Washington state's food environment looked a lot different. The mechanized system of food ...
Bread [19] [20] [21] – the oldest known bread is from 14,000 years ago in Jordan. [22] Flatbread [23] Focaccia – dates to ancient Rome [24] [25] Mantou – dates to 307 BCE – 250 BCE [26] Chutney [27] Congee [28] Curry [29] Fig-cake (develah) – eaten by Jews in antiquity, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and in the Jerusalem Talmud; Fish ...
Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago). Paleolithic – the earliest period of the Stone Age Lower Paleolithic – time of archaic human species, predates Homo sapiens
Someone lost a gold ring 500 years ago. It was just found — in nearly new condition Ancient board game — dating back over 3,000 years — discovered in Spain.
American press depiction of the "Watermelon Riot" The Watermelon Riot occurred on the evening of April 15, 1856, in Panama City, then the capital of Panama State in the Republic of New Granada. After an American took a slice of watermelon from a street vendor and refused to pay for it, a verbal altercation ensued and then quickly escalated when ...
The mummified remains of an Inca teenager, sacrificed and left near the summit of the dormant volcano Ampato about 500 years ago, were incredibly well-preserved by the mountain’s frigid conditions.