The History of Food
The History of Food

The History of Food

2018 1 Seasons 5 Episodes ⭐ 7.3 Documentary

Go back in time to our earliest hunter-gatherer beginnings all the way to the future of seed storage and food production.

Go back in time to our earliest hunter-gatherer beginnings all the way to the future of seed storage and food production.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Invention of Cooking

Humans have depended on fire for millennia, but do we fully understand the impact it has had on our diet? When our hunte

EP 2

The Agricultural Revolution

From the first row of planted crops, the practice of agriculture rendered man's hunter-gatherer lifestyles obsolete in f

EP 3

Fermentation, Preservation and Exploration

Just as humans have always sought food to survive, we have also sought the means to preserve that food. Right from the v

EP 4

The Industry of Food

Industrialization brought the second great food revolution. Over the brief span of the 20th century, agriculture underwe

EP 5

The Future of Food

Industrialized and processed food has dominated the last century. Now, the question is, what's next? We go around the wo

Popular Cast

Toby Ricketts
Toby Ricketts
Narrator (voice)