Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of humans cooking food through the controlled use of fire, dating to almost 800,000 years ago. An archeological site in Israel contains fish remains ...

Cooking food is one of the activities that makes humanity unique. It's not just about what tastes good: advances in cooking technology have been a constant part of our progress, from the ability to ...

Davenport argues that cooking mostly with broth and water can slow the deleterious effects of ageing.Photograph: Ivan/Getty Images Dr Michelle Davenport says her grandmother is 95 and doesn’t have any ...

Quick-serve menus may start taking cues from the science lab as operators increasingly experiment with high-tech cooking methods like molecular gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy, which blends technical ...

Students flooded into the pristine white lab. The unadorned stove tops and cabinets looked more like an Ikea showroom than a classroom. To many, Science of Food and Cooking, frankly, seems like a blow ...

Hard-boiling, soft-boiling or a trendy sous vide—no matter the approach, cooking a whole egg attains ideal texture for either the yolk or the white but rarely both. Now, however, scientists think they ...