Sep 02 2010

Vietnam’s Illegal Wildlife Trade Exposed

Tag: Animals, Current Events, Food, Food and Culture, Humans, Mammals, Wildlife Conservation — Jennifer Viegas @ 4:39 pm
Over 850 pounds of illegal wildlife from nearly 20 species was just seized from restaurants in Vietnam, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Aug 31 2010

Millions of Songbirds Killed for Recipe

Tag: Animals, Food, Food and Culture, Food and Lifestyle, Human Behavior, Humans, Video, Wild Birds, Wildlife Conservation — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:17 pm
Millions of songbirds are illegally killed each year for a pickled or poached bird dish known as ambelopoulia.

Aug 25 2010

Ancient Bakery Found in Egyptian Desert

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Food and Culture, Near East and Middle East Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 11:38 am
The smell of freshly baked bread wafted through Egypt’s western desert more than 3,500 years ago, according to new findings at the El-Kharga Oasis announced on Wednesday. During excavation work for the Theban Desert Road Survey, a project to map ...

Apr 28 2010

Snails Are Saving Endangered Gorillas

Tag: Animals, Food, Food and Culture, Food and Lifestyle, Human Behavior, Humans, Mammals, Marine Life, Primates, Weird News, Wildlife Conservation — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:05 pm
Humble snails are helping to prevent Cross River gorilla poaching in Nigeria, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. (Credit for Images: Wildlife Conservation Society) The WCS has just launched a new program that promotes snail farming, which helps local people ...

Mar 09 2010

California Sushi Bar Caught Selling Whale Meat

Tag: Animals, Current Events, Food, Food and Culture, Food and Lifestyle, Human Behavior, Mammals, Marine Life, Oceans, Travel — Jennifer Viegas @ 5:09 pm
In a covert operation, the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary film "The Cove" has captured video footage that they say proves a popular California sushi bar illegally sold whale meat, according to a New York Times report. Here is ...

Mar 05 2010

Egyptian Queen Offered Bread, Jug of Beer at Funeral

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Food and Culture, Religion and Spirituality — Rossella Lorenzi @ 5:02 pm
Click on image to zoom in. Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone ...

Feb 12 2010

Oysters and Crabs, the Popcorn of Shakespearean Theatergoers

Tag: Archaeology, Food and Culture, History — Rossella Lorenzi @ 7:48 pm
A reconstruction showing the Globe in the foreground and the Rose behind Museum of London Archaeology Tudor theatergoers snacked on seafood while enjoying plays by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, according to new evidence unearthed at two theaters in London. The ...

Feb 01 2010

Native American Plant Domestication Paved Way for Turkeys

Tag: Food, Food and Culture, Food and Lifestyle, Human Behavior, Humans, Plants, Wild Birds — Jennifer Viegas @ 8:03 pm
Today at Discovery News you can find out how Native Americans domesticated turkeys, not just once, but twice, well over 1,500 years before Christopher Columbus and other Europeans set foot on American soil. Native Americans were hardly starved for food. ...