Found a Clay Pot?

 If you find an ancient clay pot or bowl, scientists at UC Berkeley have a simple request:

Don't clean it.

Scientists want these pots intact. Based off of an experiment done with modern cookware made in ancient style, an old cooking pot holds the record of not just the last meal cooked in it, but past meals too. Cooks call the way unglazed pots and cast iron hold the "memory" of previous meals "seasoning."

We now know you can get some pretty accurate information about how people in the past cooked and ate and just how old grandma's recipe might actually be...

We may even be able to use this to reconstruct recipes that have been lost.

Yum.

Oh, good. It's lunch time.