How would you like your mammoth?: 12,000 years of culinary history in 50 bite-size essays

C. 10,000 BCE : grilled mammoth, North America

c. 5500 BCE : grain porridge and einkorn bread, Central Europe

c. 1730 BCE: lamb stew with barley cakes, Babylonia

c. 1400 BCE : mummified beef ribs, Egypt

c. 850 BCE : mansaf, Syria

c. 700 BCE : grape bread and baked onions, Etruria

c. 30 CE : bread and wine, Roman Palestine

c. 100 CE : gladiator stew, Roman Empire

c. 600 CE : injera, Aksumite Empire

c. 1150 CE : cure-all soup, Holy Roman Empire

c. 1200 CE : hotpot, Chinese Empire (Song Dynasty)

c. 1350 CE : blamensir, Holy Roman Empire

c. 1360 CE : lotus blossom carved from a watermelon, Sukhothai Kingdom

c. 1500 CE : curry, India

c. 1550 CE : twelve ounces of solid food, fourteen ounces of wine, Italy

c. 1560 CE : false venison roast, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

1584 CE : borscht, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

c. 1650 CE : roast swan, Europe

1651 CE : sauce, France

c. 1720 CE : afternoon tea, Kingdom of England

1770 CE : potatoes cooked in their skins, Kingdom of Prussia

c. 1790 CE : picnic, France and the United Kingdom

c. 1810 CE : canned meat, French Empire

c. 1830 CE : nigiri sushi, Japan

c. 1860 CE : fish and chips, United Kingdom

c. 1880 CE : dishes named after Bismarck, German Empire

1882 CE : hunger strike, Russian Empire

1883 CE : Romanian caviar and filet de boeuf à la jardinière, between Paris and Constantinople

c. 1900 CE : pastrami sandwich, USA

c. 1900 CE : kleiner schwarzer, Austro-Hungarian Empire

1917 CE : turnip jam, German Empire

c. 1920 CE : student meals, Weimar Republic

c. 1930 CD : Bauhaus canapés and carneplastico, Europe

1933 CE : langouste belle aurore, French Republic

c. 1935 CE : pan de muerto and sugar skulls, Mexico

1937 CE : BBC omelet, United Kingdom

1944 CE : vegetable pie, United Kingdom

1946 CE : leftovers, worldwide

1948 CE : hamburger, USA

c. 1950 CE : bánh mì, Vietnam

1955 CE : toast Hawaii, West Germany

1958 CE : the people's noodle soup, People's Republic of China

1969 CE : dehydrated chicken soup, space

c. 1970 CE : buffet, West Germany

1976 CE : the Gatsby sandwich, South Africa

c. 1995 CE : liquid olives, Spain

1999 CE : naked roast lamb, United Kingdom

2003 CE : mushroom and mussel broth on hay, Kingdom of Denmark

c. 2010 CEe : nomura jellyfish salad, Japan

c. 2020 CE : pandemic dinner, worldwide.