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Napoleon & the Invention of Canned Food
Published 3 months ago
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In this episode of History Shorts, we explore the remarkable story of Nicolas Appert, the Paris confectioner who revolutionized the way the world eats. Hoping to win a prize offered by the French government during the French Revolutionary Wars, Appert discovered that sealing food in glass bottles and heating them for hours kept it fresh for astonishing lengths of time. He had accidentally invented food sterilization decades before scientists understood bacteria or germs.
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