Where did rice come from? And how did it spread to become the foundation of global food security?
- Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
Sepanjang sejarah sinema, ‘popcorn’ memicu pandangan yang bertolak belakang: pernah dicemooh sebagai gangguan murahan, sekaligus disanjung sebagai juru selamat finansial bagi industri film.
Throughout the history of cinema, popcorn has been both scorned as a messy lowbrow distraction and hailed as a profit-making saviour.
By resurrecting statues toppled in protests during his first term, Donald Trump wants to reverse attempts to ‘erase history’. But history is never that simple.
Despite the rise of fleeting social media recipes, the cookbook is a touchstone of reliability, a cultural archive and even a guilty pleasure.
À Washington, Donald Trump veut ériger un arc de triomphe à sa gloire, inspiré de celui de Paris. Un projet architectural qui en dit long sur sa vision de l’histoire, du pouvoir et de l’héritage national.
From ancient Rome to Napoleon’s Paris, the triumphal arch has long memorialised imperial dreams. Is Donald Trump on track to realise his own in Washington?
You can trace your summer treat all the way back to the ‘ice pits’ developed in the Persian desert in 550 BCE.
Donald Trump’s claim that some satire could be ‘illegal’ harks back to an age when criticising a monarch could see the offender drawn and quartered.
A pragmatic form of socialism based on improving ordinary people’s lives is winning votes – and making powerful enemies – in equal measure.
The origin story behind instant ramen reveals working-class roots and innovative cooking techniques.
According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second term is different – as is Donald Trump.
Fake news is also old news – 350 years ago, it brought down the Dutch Republic in a frenzy of political violence distinctly similar to more contemporary events.
Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein.
The Anzac biscuit is a cultural icon, invented after the first world war. But women still provided necessities and small comforts to the ANZACs.
The fragile global economy could fuel the boycotts of companies that have aligned themselves with the policies of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump praises the 19th-century “reciprocal” tariff policy of former president William McKinley. But that strategy damaged the US economy – and the Republican Party.
Economic self-sufficiency can bring higher costs and higher inflation. Instead, countries need to be nimble, rather than isolated, to survive economic uncertainty.
The contested origins of the cafe classic stretch back 100 years, to a restaurant in Mexico, on the Fourth of July.
Today, the flat white is enjoyed by people the world over. But there’s good reason to think there’s a very local history behind this special brew.
It wasn’t just colonists and convicts who invaded Australia in 1788 – invasive plant species arrived too.
Pressure for greater transparency by food producers and retailers about costs is increasing as rising grocery prices hit the hip pocket.
Imported from Europe, the vanilla slice has been fully assimilated into Australian food culture, an identifiable icon. You know you really belong when you finally get a nickname.
How did a country that did not make wine somehow invent effervescence?
Archaeologists speculate the first soup might have been made by Neanderthals.
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