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! 

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

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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". 

From controlling fire for cooking 400,000 years ago to 30,000 years ago when things started to boil, that is the journey between dry and wet cooking. 

This episode is a part of the series called "Evolution of Cooking". Stay tuned as we go from fire, and water to agriculture and travel!

Cooking cannot happen without fire, so the answer we’re looking for when it comes to the evolution of cooking is found by looking for evidence of the control of flames. Because discovering fire, and controlling fire is two different things. In this episode, I talk about how fire changed the process of nutritional intake and its effect in the form of "the cooking hypothesis".

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

According to a new study, a surge in human brain size that occurred roughly 1.8 million years ago can be directly linked to the innovation of cooking. Let’s start with the definition first and why do we cook in the first place! 

This is an episode in the series of episodes called "Evolution of Cooking". Stay tuned and let me take you on a journey of fire, water, agriculture and travel! 

Talking about Nestle's Maggi Ban in India over MSG labelling and Lead Levels.

Answering questions about Food Scams and Life. Talking about Food Adulteration in Milk, technology advancement in ensuring food safety using RFID tags, and Baby Food regulations and compounds to avoid.