After we got time for Civilization, evolution of cooking was at a point when it became related to gender, class, and political divide, with Women being the house cooks, commercialisation of Baking, Brewing, and Wine Making and Aristocrats having a finer cuisine than the poor. 

But even the rich did not have all the crops. Then something happened in 1492, with Columbus ending up in America and paving the way for the biggest event of Globalisation in Human History and causing the Columbian Exchange. 

This episode is a part of the series Evolution of Cooking. 

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With all their pots and pans, people settled down. The agricultural revolution started. Local crops were discovered and cultures started developing. In the evolution of cooking, this was a point where cooking had already become quite sophisticated. Now people had time to pursue things other than their survival. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the physiological needs of shelter, food, and water were complete. It was now about property, security and safety. It was Time, for civilisation! 

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With the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the Neolithic period, about 12,000 years ago, everything changed. Everything! It was the dawn of the agricultural revolution. Talking about how we went from looking for food to growing it on our own! 

This episode is part of the series called "Evolution of Cooking".