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    "https://sorensengroup.seas.harvard.edu/research-ancient-recipes/",
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  "textContent": "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!\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nhttps://sorensengroup.seas.harvard.edu/research-ancient-recipes/\nhttps://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/\n“The Oldest Cuisine in the World” by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan\n\nImage Sources:\n\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuneiform_evolution_from_archaic_script.jpg\nhttps://manuscriptminiatures.com/4317/10196\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tablet_V_of_the_Epic_of_Gilgamesh.jpg\nOsama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YBC04644_o_KW.jpg\nKwag1980, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/red-cranberries-and-black-crowberries-adorn-the-delicate-stockfootage/2136436111\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/cowboy-preparing-food-at-a-rustic-outdoor-campfire-stockfootage/2253650632\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/cast-iron-pot-hanging-over-a-campfire-in-the-woods-stockfootage/2243006983\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/campfire-at-dusk-against-the-backdrop-of-mountains-and-stockfootage/1413851357\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/black-pepper-or-kali-mirch-in-small-glass-bowl-4k-stockfootage/2203615209\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/dried-dried-meat-from-meat-tenderloin-with-spices-and-stockfootage/2215585809\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/making-homemade-calendula-officinalis-common-marigold-stockfootage/2236262353\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/freezing-soap-bubble-close-up-winter-holidays-background-stockfootage/866199656\nhttps://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/video/ateshgah-is-a-temple-of-fire-in-azerbaijan-temple-of-stockfootage/2235188257",
  "title": "I Cooked the World's Oldest Written Recipe"
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