.: History of Food:.                                                      

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The Food Timeline - Food history is full of fascinating lore and contradictory facts. Historians will tell you it is not possible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are quite right. Everything we eat is the product of culinary evolution. On the other hand? It is possible to place both foods and recipes on a timeline based on print evidence and historic context.

Prehistoric Food Processing Techniques - Human foods comprise many different types and styles, even with certain ancient food processing procedures. When hunting was an ancient survival skill, food gathering and meat processing were simple, but food processing became more complex…
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Rice/papers/sung_nd.htm

Cans: A Visual History – Very informative website on the history and development of canned foods.
http://www.cancentral.com/brochure/default.htm

The History of Can Making - This is the story of the metal can from the days when it was laboriously made by hand in crude workrooms at the rate of 10 cans per day to the present, when high-speed machinery produces 2,500 cans or more per minute on a single production line.
http://www.cancentral.com/canc/nontext/history.htm 

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