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The History of Food Season 1 Episodes

  • 2018-2018
  • 1 Season
  • HBO Max
  • Documentary
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THE HISTORY OF FOOD offers a deep-dive into the science, history and cultural impact of food throughout time. THE HISTORY OF FOOD takes audiences on a mouth-watering, 2-million-year evolutionary journey beginning with our primordial ancestors, and closely examines the changing roles that diet has played over time. In each episode, viewers will explore a different monumental shift in how and what humans have eaten, the varying effects of those diets, and how the way we eat will continue to change.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

5 Episodes 2018 - 2018

Episode 1

The Invention of Cooking

Thu, Nov 15, 201829 mins

Humans have depended on fire for millennia, but do we fully understand the impact it has had on our diet? When our hunter-gatherer ancestors learned to harness this tool, it ignited a culinary and cerebral revolution believed to be one of the most important factors in our evolution.

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Episode 2

The Agricultural Revolution

Thu, Nov 15, 201833 mins

From the first row of planted crops, the practice of agriculture rendered man's hunter-gatherer lifestyles obsolete in favor of settled life and stable food supplies. This led to a skyrocketing population and enabled humans to develop skills outside of gathering the food needed to survive.

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Episode 3

Fermentation, Preservation & Exploration

Thu, Nov 15, 201833 mins

From the first row of planted crops, the practice of agriculture rendered man's hunter-gatherer lifestyles obsolete in favor of settled life and stable food supplies. This led to a skyrocketing population and enabled humans to develop skills outside of gathering the food needed to survive.

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Episode 4

The Industry of Food

Thu, Nov 15, 201827 mins

Industrialization brought the second great food revolution. Over the brief span of the 20th century, agriculture underwent greater change than it had since it was first practiced some 12,000 years ago.

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Episode 5

The Future of Food

Thu, Nov 15, 201833 mins

Industrialized and processed food has dominated the last century. Now, the question is, what's next? We go around the world to meet pioneers in urban farming, veganism, and insect protein production to find out what will be the future of food.

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