The evolution of food has always had a direct and significant correlation to the advancement of humans.
The way people consumed and cooked their food has been indicative of the changing times and evolving societies.
Crude stone toils were fashioned by prehistoric cavemen to hunt and kill their food, and the all-important discovery of fire would change the way people eat food.
How the early humans discovered fire and created the first barbecue is a story only we can hypothesise, but one thing is for sure, the shift to a cooked diet was a pivotal point in human history.
From tools and fire, to the formation of civilisations and colonies, the story of fore continued to be tied to the structures of people and society. Food started being classified according to hierarchy or its consumers, food for the chief, food for warriors, royal cuisine, and poor man, fore.
Once they put down roots on an island, they created their villages and communities around important food and water sources.
They also brought with them on these long journeys, the knowledge of cooking fore under the ground.
While earth ovens were used by many civilisations, they are still commonly found and practised in the To this day, throughout the Pacific, different island nations have their cwn versions of the earth oven.
In Fiji we call it lovo In Rotuma it is a Iona. Tongan and Samoans call theirs umu.
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