Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Plants and animals have gone extinct for millennia. So what did our ancestors eat, that we can't? In this episode of The Historian's Craft we explore five extinct foods that our ancestors ate--aurochs, falernian wine, caecuban wine, passenger pigeons, and the taliaferro apple. Some of these could potentially come back, but that's a maybe. Honorable mention goes to silphium!
Plants and animals have gone extinct for millennia. So what did our ancestors eat, that we can't? In this episode of The Historian's Craft we explore five extinct foods that our ancestors ate--aurochs, falernian wine, caecuban wine, passenger pigeons, and the taliaferro apple. Some of these could potentially come back, but that's a maybe. Honorable mention goes to silphium!
