Press Releases
The historical journey of Christmas turkeys
Professor Rebecca Earle, food historian at the University of Warwick has been researching the traditional Christmas turkey, in order to find out how this north American bird become a mainstay of festive food.
Christmas dinner saved! Sprouts gain natural disease defence
Brussels sprouts will remain safely in our Christmas dinners, thanks to University of Warwick research giving them natural defences against devastating crop diseases.
Warwick and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of Warwick and Waitrose, thanks to an award from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
What can we learn from the global history of food?
The Global History of Food, a new undergraduate module in the History department at the University of Warwick is the first of its kind in the UK. The module explores our long history of growing, eating, cooking and selling food, from ancient times to the present, from vegetarianism to the first battery chicken.
Eating chocolate each day could reduce heart disease and type 2 diabetes risk
Including a small amount of chocolate each day could help prevent diabetes and insulin resistance according to research findings from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the University of Warwick.
MPs to quiz University food policy experts on impact of Brexit
University of Warwick academics to be scrutinised by a cross-party panel of politicians.