Thursday, March 28

This is The Food Timeline, the “Wikipedia of food” | Digital Trends Spanish


There is a kind of Wikipedia of food, or at least that is what it has been popularly called The Food Timelinethe Internet’s largest repository of food history, displaying a timeline of different products.

We owe this generous catalog to Lynne Olver, a librarian and food historian who passed away in 2015 at the age of 57. The woman dedicated an important part of her life to this project without receiving any remuneration.

Thus, and thanks to it, history lovers can learn how the ancient Romans fed their armies, who invented French fries or what was cooked during the 3rd century.

The Food Timeline was created in 1999. The catalog begins with basic elements such as salt, ice or water during prehistory and culminates with hamburgers and donuts in 2013. The archive has 35 million readers and during the 16 years in those he led, Olver answered more than 25,000 user-submitted questions.

The recipes featured on the site come from a wide variety of sources, including various vintage cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, national parks, universities, cultural organizations, and government agencies. Thus, people who enter the page only need to click on a recipe to access a wide range of nutritional and historical information on each of the preparations or foods.

“I’m a professional reference librarian and I’m an enthusiast,” the woman said of her catalog in an interview. The Food Timeline can be accessed at East link.

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