Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden pest, and are quick to point out that freshly shucked oysters are not ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...

Gaius Plinius Secundus, the man we know as Pliny the Elder, was born in Como, Italy, in A.D. 23. By the time he died 56 years later, he had been a cavalry officer, an adviser to emperors and the ...

There are a lot of things that make beer awesome. Food can make good beer great. Experience can make an average beer amazing. My fondness for Budweiser has more to do with memories than the beer ...

As a historian of ancient science who investigates what Greeks and Romans knew about plants and animals, I was reminded of similar cases reported by Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Aelian, and other ...

Weird rains are not limited to Britain - they have been recorded all over the world, throughout the ages. Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, mentioned storms of frogs and fish. Some ...