This is the story of beriberi. For more than 1500 years, beriberi was known as poison wind affliction, a sickness produced by chronic exposure todamp winds.In reality, beriberi is caused by the abse

In Episode 13 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're talking on sugar, the unlikely superfood of medieval times.We'll be tracing the emergence of sugar in fine medieval cuisine and discussin

In Episode 12 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're continuing where we left off in Episode 11, talking on the 14th century medical community's response to the Black Death of 1347-51. This response was most exhaustively detailed in a genre of...

In Episode 11 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're talking the 14th century medical community's response to the Black Death of 1347-51. This response was most exhaustively detailed in a genre of literature known as 'Plague Regimen'. These...

In Episode 11 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, we're talking the 14th century medical community's response to the Black Death of 1347-51. This response was most exhaustively detailed in a genre of literature known as 'Plague Regimen'. These...

On Episode 10 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown, were dishing out three stories on the early history of protein and its role in the nutritional sciences of the 19th century. The first of these

In episode 9 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown,we are talking about one of the oldest and most renowned herbal medicine in the history of the worldginseng.Ginseng has a history spanning thous

In Pt.2 ofVegetable Eating in the Middle Ages,we'll discuss the broadening of the medieval European vegetable resume with additions from the Arabic World and the Americas, the rediscovery of horticu

In Pt.1 of Vegetable Eating in the Middle Ages, we're tracing the history of vegetable consumption in Medieval Europe following the Fall of Rome.  We'll cover the actual eating of vegetables across the three orders of medieval...

In episode 6 of Nutrition History from Parts Unknown,we aretracing the origins and history of the disease of nutritional deficiency known as pellagra, a disease which claimed over 100,000 American l