{"id":6001,"date":"2012-09-15T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2012-09-15T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T13:30:09","slug":"the-most-significant-inventions-in-the-history-of-food-and-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-most-significant-inventions-in-the-history-of-food-and-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Significant Inventions In The History Of Food And Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091512_1318_TheMostSign1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Megan Garber writes that the UK&#8217;s national science academy released a list of the 20 most significant inventions in the history of food and drink. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ovens. They were first used in 29,000 BC. To cook mammoths.<\/li>\n<li>Alcohol is important to the British. Three of the items &#8211; fermentation, corks, and the barrel &#8211; were on the list in part due to their contribution to the production and sale of alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>Selective breeding. It allowed us to naturally genetically engineer crops and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-evolution-of-milk-production\/\">animals<\/a> to better fit our requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Refrigeration. The number one invention on the list. It allowed us to preserve food, nutrition and\u2026beer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/09\/the-20-most-significant-inventions-in-the-history-of-food-and-drink\/262410\/\">here<\/a>, and find out where the spork stands.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/09\/the-20-most-significant-inventions-in-the-history-of-food-and-drink\/262410\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Garber writes that the UK&#8217;s national science academy released a list of the 20 most significant inventions in the history of food and drink. Highlights include: Ovens. They were first used in 29,000 BC. To cook mammoths. Alcohol is important to the British. Three of the items &#8211; fermentation, corks, and the barrel &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091512_1318_TheMostSign1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}