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Looking at the Solid Gold Dog Food Company: Sissy McGill founded Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc in 1974, as the first holistic pet food company in the USA. They make natural, holistic pet products for dogs and cats, including dry food, canned food, treats, and supplements. In 2016, they moved their corporate headquarters from Greenville, South Carolina to west St. Louis County, Missouri to be closer to their supply chain and manufacturing facilities. Who makes Solid Gold dog food?…

polarizing icons in all of history was conceived. Upon this marvelous arrival, our holiday seasons would ever be changed. I, of course, am referring to the fruitcake. During the early Roman Empire, a baker placed dried fruit and seeds into a humble barley cake and accidentally created the first fruitcake. Some historians even propose that the original fruitcake is still being regifted to this day. Around the globe reincarnations of the early roman recipe like Italian panforte, German…

The Archaic Era was a very important era in the world. It started about 2,500- 10,000 years ago (Schultz 2014). Agriculture became the primary source of living during this time. It made many populations grow larger. It made food supplies become more obtainable and the groups no longer depended on hunting. It made the modern world learn the importance of farming and growing your own crops. The reason many people believe that this is the most significant in Prehistory, because it showed the world…

The only thought I have after watching this movie is about the cost of freedom. That this movie was and is a bitter, realistic reminder of the cost of freedom. Freedom is an abstract concept, it can be a thought, a feeling, or a state of being. For the republicans in this film, it’s in fact all of the above. Freedom is a thought that takes up most of their thoughts, it’s something they had, they felt, and now fight to retrieve. They think that if they can get freedom back for their people and…

I know you may be scared or have questions and concerns about going through with this new gluten free diet of yours, but I assure you that you have nothing to worry about. In fact, it’s scientifically proven that having a diet consisting of gluten free is really beneficial for one’s health in the long term and not just a “fad.” You may not be fully aware of what gluten really is, so let me break it down for you. Gluten is for the most part made up out of 2 proteins; glutenin and gliadin. First…

Did you know that 95% of the Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were…

In the article “Consequences and Future of Plant and Animal Domestication”, Jared Diamond, the author, discusses and explains a few very important topics involved with the domestication of plants and animals. First of all, the article starts off by discussing the topic of the origins of domestication around the world. There is no definite place or time of origin, but domestication began when a pair of changes occurred. The pair of changes that appeared was the change in the behavior of humans…

Food consumed during the Viking Age was mainly food that was easy and convenient to acquire; however, we will see more uncommon foods being served at special occasions such as feasts where the purpose of that food was to impress the highly-ranked guests. When researching the topic of Viking Food, there are many different traditions that are brought up that deal heavily with food. However, in most sources there is a common theme that is repeated, which is the importance of certain foods and the…

Beer was an integral part of their religious ceremonies and mythology. Early civilizations found the mood-altering properties of beer supernatural, and the newfound state of intoxication was considered divine. Beer, it was thought, must contain a spirit or god, since drinking the liquid so possessed the spirit of the drinker. Remnants of this belief persist to modern times. We still refer to alcohol and alcoholic beverages as “spirits”. “The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer”,…

In the book The Golden Goblet, Eloise Jarvis McGraw explains the story of Ranofer. He meets a boy named Hequet and together they do great things, they spy on Ranofer’s half brother Gebu. In Gebu’s room Ranofer finds a golden goblet with the name Thutmose II engraved on it, but he doesn’t tell Hequet about it. Nevertheless the most important event is when Ranofer meets Hequet. In the early chapters Ranofer is a porter at a goldsmith when Hequet becomes apprenticed there. Hequet asks Ranofer…