Future Foods=Comfort Foods

More than 2,000 years ago, troops of the Roman Empire frequently filled their diet with farro. And if scientists have it right, amaranth has been cultivated and, no doubt, consumed, for more than 8,000 years.

Go figure: Roman centurions and Mesoamericans would actually find something familiar to eat in today’s supermarkets, where one can find both farro and amaranth.

There is probably no element of our society where those ancients would find any familiarity today except in their foods.

Richard Morgan, an admitted lover of Star Trek, took this issue in a new direction recently in theWashington Post. Morgan asked why science fiction writers have no trouble dreaming up warp drives, aliens and death stars, yet seem so pedestrian when it comes to culinary items.

Read the full article by Michael Sansolo.