In today's podcast we're going to learn about the West’s first true restaurants in 18th-century Paris.

In today's episode we're going into the underbelly of food production. We'll investigate the process by which late 19th-century food production became a vast industry. And we'll see how technological developments such as freezing, canning,

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, European colonialism expanded across the entire globe as a form of economic empire building, with food production as a primary form of wealth creation.

In today's podcast we’re going to explore the significant ways in which American eating habits have been shaped by immigrants.

In this podcast we’re going to examine a pivotal shift in food consumption that took place in the early 20th century. First, World War I is going to change, forever, the way civilians eat.

During WWII, a whole host of new food technologies were developed to aid the war effort. In this podcast we’re going to explore how these technologies became the template for American eating in the postwar era.

In today’s podcast we’re going to explore the backlash against processed food in the late 20th century.

In today’s podcast we’re going to witness the melding of science and fine dining in the ingenious creations of “modernist” cuisine.

In our final podcast for this series, we’ll conclude with Professor Albala’s intriguing predictions on the future of our food culture.