Food Timeline has been a gem of the Internet since it came online in 1999. Before the two years of Wikipedia, it lists dozens of dishes and ingredients in chronological order of their arrival in human food, from ice cream to cronuts. Now the beloved loose resource wants a new Guardian, Eater reports.
The chronology is impressive as it was built and maintained through a consistent one. Lynne Olver presented it as an exciting task at a time when online training fabrics were still limited. She spent 30 hours consistent with the week of her non-public time on the online page and worked as a reference librarian for the Morris County Public Library in New Jersey. After more than 15 years, she has never hired staff or sold classified ads to help her manage the food schedule.
Olver died of cancer in 2015 and the site has not been updated since. He left a hard-to-maintain legacy: he never claimed that the chronology was 100 percent accurate (much of the food history is based on confusing and contradictory beads), it has kept it at a higher level. He verified his data in opposition to the trusted reference team and cited all of his sources. Users can simply ask her all their questions and she promised to answer them within 48 hours.
Today, five years after his death, Olver’s circle of relatives is looking for someone who can show the same point of commitment to the project. They will not give the domain to the first user who requests it; the new custodian of Food Timeline will have to agree to keep it simple, available and ad-free as Olver wanted. Some applicants have expressed interest, adding the Culinary Institute of America, however, the circle of relatives is still looking for the best owner. Until then, the product of Olver’s obsession remains for everyone, as it has since 1999.
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Although the Office’s superfans would possibly claim otherwise, the word “spill the beans” was not born when Kevin Malone dropped a huge bucket of chili in episode 26 of season five. In fact, other people would have started talking about spilling beans more than 2000 years ago.
According to Bloomsbury International, a voting approach in ancient Greece concerned beans (uncooked). If you voted yes on a safe subject, you’d put a white bean in the pot; If he voted no, he’d use his black bean. The boat was not transparent, and because the votes intended to remain secret until the final count, someone who had knocked it down mid-vote literally knocked down the grains, and figuratively the grains in the results.
While we do not know for certain that the term “spilled beans” dates back to ancient times, we know that others have used the word “spill” to mean “revealing” at least since the 16th century. The oldest known reference in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from a letter written by the Spanish columnist Antonio de Guevara some time before his death in 1545 (the word “derrame” appears in Edward Hellowes’ 1577 translation).
The writers began to associate the 20th-century bean spill. The first known mention is from Thomas K. Holmes’ 1919 novel, The Man From Tall Timber: “Mother Really Spilled beans!” Think Stafford with immense fun.
In short, the explanation of why other people made the decision that beans were an ideal food to describe widespread secrets remains a mystery. Whether you create hard, raw beans like the ones used by the Greeks or the tender, seasoned beans from Kevin Malone’s unfortunate pepper, we leave it to you.
[h/t Bloomsbury International]