WHY WE EAT WHAT WE EAT!!

3,000-4,000 BC

• Humans were cultivating wheat, barley, lentils, ect.
• Simple harvesting tools like the sickle & plough were developed
• They started grinding and milling grain, which began the spice trade
• They also evolutionized beer and leavened bread
• Humans gathered resources that were around them

900-1,000 AD

• During the middle ages, cooking was adapted to ingredients and equipment
• By 1,000 AD modern fish farms were in existence
• By 900 AD teahouses and cook shops developed in many countries
• Spices were becoming very commonly used, not only for taste but health also
• Salt became one of the most powerful factors in the worl economy

NEW WORLD & NEW FOODS

• Spaniards cruised the Caribbean and found a shortage of food animals
• corn became the most important of all the new foods.
• The inhabitants had developed more then 200 varieties of corn
• eventually these corn seeds made their way back to the Mediterranean 
• by the 15000 corn became an important crop to china

The industrial revolution

• the 19th century brought huge growths into town
• this period also brought the first food adulteration 
• industries had a difficult time dealing with storage and materials 
• it was hard for industries to keep costs down
• this caused people to to buy less 

canned foods

• were more expensive then fresh but more convienient for travellers
• appeared in England first
• many manufacturers used their knowledge to heat foods to a proper tempertur
• this led to improvement in quality, taste and safety of the canned products

Ice houses

• foods were kept cold in ice houses
• people depended on ice
• manufactured ice and refridgerators were produced in the mid 1800's

Today

• we are now introduced to a lot of processed foods
• we rely on fast food restaurants and frozen foods 
• home cooked meals are rarely made
• now a days its not about what we need but rather what we want
• we eat what we eat because its easy and convenient