However, the explanation most food historians seem ... Tracing the lineage further back, a 15th-century English cookbook from around 1440 describes an intriguing dish titled "alows de beef ...

One notable example was Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913), the 15th and last shogun. One of his favorite foods was a pork dish ... to the 18th century, still offers a boar meat hot pot.

Except the recipe for the dish is 600 years old. Pumpkin spice, that quintessential modern ingredient, has been popular since the 15th century. “It is on everything. They put it on meat.