"Humans... have millions of years of evolution in relationship with eating foods that have supported our development."
"That right there is honey from the 1920s. As you can see, it looks a lot darker than the honey we have here today."
"Did you know Hawaiian pizza is a Canadian invention?"
"It was African slaves' central position as producers and processors of food that allowed them to leave their own special mark." - Historian Donna Gabaccia
"Flatbreads can be produced both in the same way as they were made thousands of years ago and in modern fully automatic industrial lines."
"Bread was an important food source in the 18th century."
"The earliest forms of cornbread in colonial America were of an unleavened type."
"The entire point of the trial was to prove once and for all that tomatoes could be eaten as ordinary food."
"The presence of charred food remains in the fireplaces of Shoe Baker is a game-changing discovery that has provided us the chance to characterize 14-thousand-year-old food practices."
"Buffalo chicken wings rose to prominence in the 1980s."
"Sugary breakfast cereals have been around since 1939."
"Lean Cuisine's pre-prepared and calorie-conscious frozen meals debuted in the U.S. in 1981."
"This was really fun. I like seeing how it started, you know? And it's really cool to see the stages: the original, the secondary, and then we already know the gingerbread we have now and love."
"The potato would make bizarre inroads to conquer Europe." - Narrator
"This comforting winter meal is believed to have originated as a simple farmer's dish, which soon became a restaurant staple and a part of the national cuisine in Portugal."
"The humble lobster climbed the social ladder and went from being cheap and disregarded to being one of the most decadent dishes on restaurant menus."
"Bread as plate, Helstosky says, puts pizza in the same lineage as pita, lavash, and tortilla."
"What made this crustacean go from prison food to a well-known delicacy?"
"Who would have expected onion rings in the 18th century?"
"Potato chips: accidentally invented by a chef named George Crum in 1853."
"Rice might be boring but just like salt and cod these things have helped shape our entire human history."
"We found evidence of people eating venison and beef, sometimes other exotic species."
"Gone are the days of old where cereals had to first be tenderized by soaking in milk overnight before eating."
"If you're a sucker for food history like I am, then it's also cool to try a slice of history, or a sliced steak of history, you might say."
"Barley is among the oldest human foods... and the name given to gladiators, who used to be called hordearii, barley-men."
"Another interesting fact, Elvis himself flew all the way from Graceland all the way here to Denver to get a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. And that's what inspired this."
"The history of food in the United States is one of the more complex histories in the entire world."
"Frenchy's Chicken: While fried chicken wasn't on the original menu these days it's what Frenchy's is primarily known for."
"The first cold breakfast cereal, Grand Granula, was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson."
"Humans living thirty forty thousand years ago were growing grains, roasting the grains, grinding the grains, and using the flour for bakery products."
"Wheat, an ancient food for over 10,000 years, has become a toxic junk over the last 60 to 70 years."
"French fries really took off after soldiers stationed in Belgium first got a taste of them during World War I."
"What we really wanted was the targets of what food was back then: the culture, the search for flavor and nutrition, all of that."
"Biblical food. Biblical archaeology. The two go together."
"These are food traditions that originated prior to modern times."
"The French fry was actually invented in Belgium."
"The modern doughnut, the one we know and love, originated from a Dutch specialty originally called olykoek or oily cakes."
"The Caesar salad was born right here in Mexico."
"Without geography and without history, food doesn't exist."
"It's no secret that there are the foods that people and populations have been eating for thousands of years without being plagued by the chronic diseases that are running rampant in the modern world."
"In 1935, Louis E. Ballast created the cheeseburger."
"Cheese stored and traveled much easier than milk, it's also a source of protein and calcium, improving the health of ancient societies."
"Pizza went from rags to riches and ultimately became a food for everyone."
"We're going to have our Taste of Soul event, which is the history of Soul Food."
"The history of nachos can tell us a lot more than their simple ingredient list might suggest."
"Food changes over time and food has changed incredibly over the last 150 years."
"Pantry derives from the word 'pain,' the French word for bread."
"Where the greatest food of all time was invented, home of the original buffalo wing."
"An artichoke is actually an unbloomed flower; it's also one of the oldest foods humans know."
"Nachos weren't some ancient Mexican food; they were invented less than 100 years ago."
"The history of what we eat is indisputably the history of how we live and who we are."
"The history of food arouses strong emotions because it touches on identity and ancestry."
"Did you guys know that the hamburger was invented in New Haven, Connecticut at a place called Louie's Lunch?"
"French toast was created in England and is named after Joseph French."
"It's not fondue fondue, but yes, nachos definitely a fork in the development tree that is called fondue."