Timelines tagged “food-and-drink”
7 timelines
- Agriculture
Agriculture worldwide, from the first cultivation of crops in the Fertile Crescent around 9500 BCE through irrigation, the plow, the Columbian exchange and mechanization to synthetic fertilizer, genetically modified crops and gene-editing rules in 2026.
- Beer
Beer from possible Natufian brewing about 13,000 years ago through Sumer, Egypt, monasteries, hops and Bavaria's 1516 purity law to lager science, Prohibition, global conglomerates and the rise and slowdown of craft beer to 2025.
- Chocolate
Chocolate and the cacao behind it, from cacao drinks in Mesoamerica around 1900 BCE through the Olmec, Maya and Aztecs, its adoption in Europe and industrial chocolate-making to the cocoa price crisis of 2024.
- Coffee
Coffee from wild arabica in the forests of Ethiopia and the first coffee drinking in Yemen around 1450 through Ottoman and European coffeehouses, colonial plantations, espresso and instant coffee to the record prices of 2025.
- Green Revolution
The spread of high-yielding grain varieties, from the 1943 Mexican Agricultural Program and Norman Borlaug's wheat through IR8 rice, Asian adoption and CGIAR to later criticism and African successor efforts up to 2022.
- Potato
The potato from its domestication in the Andes, about 10,000 to 7,000 years ago, through its arrival in Europe in the 1560s, worldwide spread, late blight and the Irish famine of the 1840s, to the International Potato Center and genome-based breeding through 2025.
- Tea
Tea from the Shennong legend and tomb finds of the 5th to 2nd centuries BCE through Lu Yu's "Classic of Tea", Japan's tea ceremony, the European and Russian tea trade, colonial plantations and the tea bag to bubble tea and a UNESCO listing in 2023.