A scientist, an Egyptologist, and a video-game designer are teaming up to unveil the culinary secrets of ancient Egypt by extracting traces of 4,500-year-old yeast from ancient pottery and using it to ...

Dried yeast has become something of a hot commodity in recent weeks, as stir-crazy amateur bakers have chosen to while away their days in quarantine with the time-consuming task of making homemade ...

Since ancient times, bread has been a staple in the diets of many cultures around the world. Back then, bread was very different from the sliced loaves we buy at the grocery store. Between then and ...

In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey. Now, more than 5000 years later, archaeologists have unearthed it, ...