Talk:Food history

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 August 2019 and 18 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): KarlyKerod.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 June 2019 and 31 July 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): KobeBuckets24, XBradley, Ab3l100, Gracesyl, Jgaliste, Kneelb4zod6.

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???
I was certainly aware of the history of food before 1979: Hunting and gathering, the domestication of plants and animals in the Old and New Worlds, the development of Chinese cuisine, excesses in Rome, the introduction of New World foods to the Old World and vica versa after 1492, canned foods in the Napoleonic Age, Victorian excesses...etc. This was all taught in school history classes. Borock (talk) 16:53, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

21st century
I have written an article on how Humanity's relationship with food has continued to change in the 21st century. the main points are That population is expected to continue to swell, which is problematic since scholars state that there are several issues facing the world's food supply such as climate change. Also, how these challenges can be overcome, but it will require technological advances that will only come about if society invests in education and research as well as recruit people educated in STEM. The article also talks about the way food is consumed has changed, as now food purchases are no longer dictated almost solely by price, income, and traditional cultural preferences - now influences such as attitudes, information, perceptions, and other psychological factors also play a major role. It also discusses how technology and social media has a huge impact on restaurants and dining culture on a global scale, as well as how food is procured.

would this article be suitable under the 21st century for food history article? I have it on my sandbox but wanted to see if I can upload it on this article. Ab3l100 (talk) 23:12, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Food in the Middle Ages
WIKI WEEK 13 ASSIGNMENT 1. I edited the Middle Ages section of this article because it was not representative of the worldview. I centered my article primarily on food in the Middle Ages in Europe. 2. I removed the former section because it originally spoke about breakfast in the UK during the Middle Ages. I wrote mostly about what the poor would eat in comparison to what the noble would eat. I also included the various types of food in the section.

Karly KerodKarlyKerod (talk) 03:00, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Terrible article
This is a terrible, terrible, terrible article. Though it has some good sources (Laudan), it often mangles them until the meaning is changed or simply wrong. It also has a huge amount of terrible writing based on poor sources (lordsandladies.org!) and ridiculously broad generalizations. It is poorly organized: Middle Ages, Potato, Rice, Iberian Peninsula, Early modern Europe, etc. Much of the writing and editing is sloppy (Ken Alba for Ken Albala). Random factoids, some relevant to food history, many not, are sprinkled in with no rhyme or reason. It has multiple references to book-length sources with no page references. It is repetitive. Much of the English is bizarre, unidiomatic, or indecipherable.

I suspect that a lot of the bad content here was contributed by students working on class projects. They often don't seem to have understood what they were reading, and ended up tossing the words in their sources to produce word salad.

I have sliced out some of the most egregious nonsense, but the more I remove, the worse the rest looks. I think we need to start from scratch. --Macrakis (talk) 17:47, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Poor content
I have been continuing to excise poor-quality material from the article, most recently. reverted, saying "zero content is even worse--if you have better sources please tell us what they are". I disagree: no content is better than bad content based on bad sources. The current article on Medieval cuisine, though not great, is much better than this section. Let me enumerate some ways in which the current Middle Ages section is terrible: Please see my comment above. We need to remove most of the content in this article, establish a reasonable overall structure (which it doesn't currently have), and fill in the sections with more serious content. --Macrakis (talk) 23:31, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It doesn't mention what parts of the world it is talking about. It appears to be mostly about Britain, but it doesn't say that.
 * It is based on two low-quality sources:
 * Anna Selby's Food Through the Ages: From Stuffed Dormice to Pineapple Hedgehogs. Selby describes herself as a "UK travel and health journalist and author" and appears to have zero background in food history. She says such nonsense as "after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe descended into the Dark Ages, and from this time all the way through to the Renaissance (almost a thousand years) the food people ate and the way that they ate it was governed by three things: the seasons, geography and the Church", which is closely paraphrased here.
 * A random web site, [www.lordsandladies.org] which describes itself as "Middle Ages for Kids", which by the way defines the Middle Ages quite differently, as 1066-1485.
 * It is poorly written.
 * OK i solved those problems. Rjensen (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * See also my comments at . A lot of the bad content comes from badly supervised student work. --Macrakis (talk) 00:01, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the additional ref in "Impact of religion on cuisines". But the paragraph is really talking about Laudan's analysis. --Macrakis (talk) 00:04, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Food History And Connections Etc.
This Wikipedia article I chose is the same one I chose for last week, except this time I dived into the 20th century portion as well as the WW1 & WW2, where I could connect it more to my Ebook. Overall my article was neutral, it spoke facts of the shortage of food and where the food was given when able to be had. The World War II seems under-developed but that could be because it does not have as much information as the section of World War I. It is possible there was not as much information that needed to be said. Overall, all claims seem to have citations. No my article does not include underrepresented populations, but I believe there is an opportunity to include information on them- even though the article is focused on the World Wars, why are they not significant enough to include?

Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History  (Chapter 3: Pg. 363)

My page consisted of mentions of agricapitalists, hegemony of global-industrial food system, and how in the 20th century, cooking/ food was. In the 1920's it was spoken of how people were required to make food in their small kitchens, while in the 1960's farming became a bigger thing with pesticides, etc. It spoke of the issues that were occurring during the time with food, many people saw food as a commodity and not a necessity. It was stated that back then making bread was a 'laborer' action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littlehodgee (talk • contribs) 05:53, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Removal of all external links
I place them here, in case anyone can make use of them:
 * University of Houston Digital Library: 1850-1860s Hotel and Restaurant Menu Collection images
 * : FOST: Social & Cultural Food Studies (VUB's research unit in food history)
 * Spanish Food History Articles: 27 most relevant products and Timeline by Enrique García Ballesteros


 * Explained With Maps - History of World Food (Documentary Video)

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