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The History of Food

Season 1
Go back in time to our earliest hunter-gatherer beginnings all the way to the future of seed storage and food production.
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  1. S1 E1 - The Invention of Cooking
    March 29, 2024
    30min
    7+
    Humans have depended on fire for millennia but do we fully understand the impact it has had on our diet? When our hunter-gatherer ancestors learned to harness this tool it ignited a culinary and cerebral revolution believed to be one of the most important factors in our evolution.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Agricultural Revolution
    March 29, 2024
    34min
    13+
    From the first row of planted crops the practice of agriculture rendered man's hunter-gatherer lifestyles obsolete in favor of settled life and stable food supplies. This led to a skyrocketing population and enabled humans to develop skills outside of gathering the food needed to survive.
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  3. S1 E3 - Fermentation, Preservation and Exploration
    March 29, 2024
    34min
    13+
    Just as humans have always sought food to survive we have also sought the means to preserve that food. Right from the very moment of a kill or a harvest food begins to break down. With preservation we can plan for times of scarcity during times of plenty.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Industry of Food
    March 29, 2024
    28min
    13+
    Industrialization brought the second great food revolution. Over the brief span of the 20th century agriculture underwent greater change than it had since it was first practiced some 12000 years ago.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Future of Food
    March 29, 2024
    32min
    7+
    Industrialized and processed food has dominated the last century. Now the question is what's next? We go around the world to meet pioneers in urban farming veganism and insect protein production to find out what will be the future of food.
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