Chicken and Rice Were Inseparable From the Earliest Days of Human History

A new look at the taming of the jungle fowl

Prateek Dasgupta, M.S.
Teatime History
Published in
6 min readFeb 16

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Photo by Arib Neko on Unsplash

Do you enjoy the irresistible combo of chicken and rice? There could be an evolutionary explanation for it! According to new research, chicken and rice have been inseparable since the bird’s domestication, after which the fowl conquered our gastronomic and linguistic…

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Prateek Dasgupta, M.S.
Teatime History

Top writer in History, Science, Art, Food, and Culture. Interested in lost civilizations and human evolution. Contact: prateekdasgupta@gmail.com