{"id":952,"date":"2014-03-21T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=952"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:39:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T01:39:51","slug":"preserving-food-history-a-man-a-meal-and-5000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Food History: A Man, a Meal and 5,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_953\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875; color: #000000; outline: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/ancient\/iceman-last-meal.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-953 \" alt=\"hop hornbeam\" src=\"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hop-hornbeam-300x292.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hop-hornbeam-300x292.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hop-hornbeam-260x253.jpg 260w, http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hop-hornbeam-160x155.jpg 160w, http:\/\/hdmzweb.hu.mtu.edu\/cookingbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hop-hornbeam.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the pollen in his stomach came from the hop hornbeam tree (pictured)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">1991, two German hikers <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iceman.it\/en\/node\/233\">discovered<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\"> what would turn out to be the oldest recorded meal in human history. The 5,0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">00 year old body of a man, given the name <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%96tzi\">\u00d6tzi<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">, was found almost astonishingly well \u00a0preserved in the ice of the \u00d6tztal Alps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">Scientist would document every possible piece of this human time capsule. Aside from the physical wounds, one of the greatest story telling features turned out to be the preservation of his last meals. Ba<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">sed on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">the geography of the<\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/ancient\/iceman-last-meal.html\"> contents found in his stomach<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">, researchers could actually being to map out his last few days alive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a01991, two German hikers discovered what would turn out to be the oldest recorded meal in human history. 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