Historical love-affair with indulgent foods

Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 10:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Our desire for indulgent meals may be over 500 years old. A new analysis of European and American paintings across five centuries shows that salt, bread, sausage, and shellfish were among the most commonly depicted foods in paintings of meals from 1500 to 2000 AD.

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