Ancient Chinese Consumed Fermented Drinks
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The Chinese were consuming fermented beverages &#151; possibly wine &#151; as long as 9,000 years ago, according to scientists who used modern techniques to peer back through the mists of time.
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WASHINGTON -- Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.
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A jail in northern China has turned to the ancient teachings of Confucius to put its inmates on a more righteous path, a Chinese newspaper reported on Thursday.
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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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WASHINGTON - The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda was been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L.
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China accounts for about half of the global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Archaeologists in Ecuador find that chillies were used in cooking more than 6,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Archaeologists say they've found one of the oldest traces ever of human chocolate consumption in pottery vessels more than 3,000 years old.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH SHANGHAI, China - Even in anything-edible-goes-in-the-pot China, the Huifu Fine-food Restaurant is drawing attention with special menu offerings that include alligator kebabs and soup - complete with the endangered species' head and tail.
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Post-menopausal Chinese women who eat a Western-style diet heavy in meat and sweets face a higher risk of breast cancer than their counterparts who stick to a typical Chinese diet loaded with vegetables and soy, a study found.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- After hearing about dangerous Chinese products elsewhere, Indonesia this summer began testing popular Chinese-made items on its own store shelves. What it found has added to the list of horrors: mercury-laced makeup that turns skin black, dried fruit spiked with industrial...
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Dumpling delicacies stuffed with cardboard shreds and bogus rabies vaccines are the focus of the latest health scares in China, where an industrial solvent used in toothpaste was banned after a spate of global recalls.
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Culinary solution to Three Gorges Dam rodent disaster Residents downstream of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam in Hunan province have responded in traditional fashion to a plague of two billion rats forced into farmland by rising water levels - by offering them to restaurants in neighbouring Guangdong province, the home of "if it's edible, we'll eat it" Cantonese cuisine.â¦
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A table-setter into Jewish people's love for Chinese food, including the sociological implications. Don't fill up on so many appetizers that you won't have room for the main course.
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For wine snobs, it could be the ultimate vintage guaranteed to impress: A 9,000-year-old prehistoric preserved wine dug up from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in northern China.