Evan McDuff, MA'19, wrote his master’s thesis on spices in ancient Rome. This essay is adapted from an article McDuff and his adviser, associate professor of classical studies Joel Christensen, wrote ...

Black pepper, salt's humble companion, has a fascinating age-old history. Learn all there is to know about sourcing, grinding ...

Salt was rarely used in ancient Greece and Rome, Julia Skinner writes in Our Fermented Lives (Storey Publishing, 2022), but fish sauce (a.k.a. liquamen in Latin or garon, as the Greeks called it ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

The world’s lust for spices has shaped thousands of years of history.Let’s take a look at the origins of some of our favorite herbs and spices, from the ubiquitous salt to the more obscure ...

5 Reasons to Try This Ancient Spice. By Ari Weinzweig. September 2, 2009. ... Java, by contrast, was Dutch-ruled, and there cubebs, cloves, and long pepper were the prominent spices.