{"id":4251,"date":"2013-08-23T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2013-08-23T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:30:05","slug":"archaeologists-uncover-first-use-of-spices-in-european-cuisine-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2013\/08\/23\/archaeologists-uncover-first-use-of-spices-in-european-cuisine-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Uncover First Use of Spices in European Cuisine (Science)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bits of silica stuck in charred residues scraped from pots reveal that  chefs in northern Europe were cooking with spices at least 6 millennia  ago. Although researchers have previously noted the use of  strong-flavored ingredients such as onions by cooks in this region  during the same era, the new find is the first to report the use of an  ingredient that didn\u2019t also have nutritional value\u2014which means that the  spice, ground seeds from a plant called garlic mustard, was almost  certainly used solely for its flavor.\u00a0 More here: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/archaeology\/2013\/08\/archaeologists-uncover-first-use-spices-european-cuisine\">http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/archaeology\/2013\/08\/archaeologists-uncover-first-use-spices-european-cuisine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bits of silica stuck in charred residues scraped from pots reveal that chefs in northern Europe were cooking with spices at least 6 millennia ago. Although researchers have previously noted the use of strong-flavored ingredients such as onions by cooks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2013\/08\/23\/archaeologists-uncover-first-use-of-spices-in-european-cuisine-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13739,5856,12714,7032],"tags":[7050],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anth-150","category-anth-201","category-ethnobiology","category-ethnobotany","tag-physical-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}