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Why Am I Doing This?

“Why should I care about people who lived and died thousands of years ago, let alone what kind of food they ate?”

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Ancient Recipe: Egyptian Beer (Egypt, ca. 5000 BCE)

"Give me 18 cups of wine; I want to drink to drunkenness, my throat is dry as straw!" ~ Words of a female partygoer in an Ancient Egyptian banquet painting

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Ancient Recipe: Tzoalli (amaranth candy) (Aztec, prehistory – 16th century CE)

“The priest brought down a small idol made of this dough. Its eyes were small green beads, and its teeth were grains of corn…he ascended to the place where those who were to be sacrificed stood, and...

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Ancient Recipe: Asparagus Patina (Roman, 4th century CE)

Asparagus patina is made like this: Put in the mortar asparagus tips. Crush pepper, lovage, green coriander [cilantro], savory and onions; crush, dilute with wine, liquamen [fish sauce] and oil. Put...

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Ancient Recipe: Makgeolli (rice liquor) (Korean, at least 13th century CE)

“My friend, if you have some wine at home be sure to invite me When the flowers at my house bloom I will call you Let’s discuss ways of forgetting The worries of one hundred years.” ~ Kim Yuk (1580 –...

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Ancient Recipe: Eezgii [Roasted Cheese Curd] (Mongolian, at least 14th...

“And I tell you also, that when necessary [the Mongols] ride full ten days without food, and without lighting a fire; but piercing a vein of their horse, they drink his blood. They have likewise their...

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Tilapia Stew with Barley (Egyptian, ca. 3500 BCE)

“I behold the tilapia in its true nature, guiding the speedy boat in its waters.” ~ From The Book of Coming Forth Into the Light, better known as The Book of the Dead, 2nd or 1st millennium BCE In a...

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