I Cooked the World's Oldest Written Recipe

Nearly 4000 year old food anyone?! In this video, I try cooking one of the world's oldest written recipes, that comes from the Babylonian Yale Culinary Tablets. I provide a little rant about ancient Mesopotamian cooking practices and then give the recipe a go for myself!

Further Reading:

https://sorensengroup.seas.harvard.edu/research-ancient-recipes/ https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/ “The Oldest Cuisine in the World” by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

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