Food & Drink
Eight thousand years of what humans have been eating and drinking — from the first known winemaking in Georgia to the Michelin Guide to modern delivery-app mergers. 100 sortable events covering food, drink, and the businesses around them.
What's in this category
Food & Drink covers the long arc of human cuisine and beverage: the earliest evidence of brewing, winemaking, baking, and farming; agricultural revolutions and the introduction of staple crops; the spice and tea trades; the founding of iconic restaurants and food brands; the Michelin Guide and modern culinary culture; the rise of fast food, packaged goods, and food delivery; recent food-tech mergers and consolidations.
What it's not: individual recipes aren't sorted — the category focuses on milestone events, business launches, regulatory changes, and cultural turning points in what and how humans eat and drink.
Sample events
- Qvevri Clay Vessels Launch Georgian Winemaking — 6000 BCE
- Mesopotamian Brewing Tablets Discovered — 4000 BCE
- Emperor Shen Nung Discovers Tea — 2737 BCE
- Nile Valley Bakers Master Leavened Bread — 2600 BCE
- Heinz Founded in Pittsburgh (representative) — 1869
- Michelin Tire Company Publishes First Guide — 1900
- First McDonald's Franchise Opens (representative) — 1955
- Grubhub Sold to Wonder Group for Restructuring — 2024
+ 92 more events. New events added through corrections and ongoing verification.
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- US History
- European History
- Ancient Civilizations
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