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Related: About this forumEat like the ancient Babylonians
November 16, 20198:02 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
The tablets are part of the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum. Three of the tablets date back to the Old Babylonian period, no later than 1730 B.C., according to Harvard University Assyriologist and cuneiform scholar Gojko Barjamovic, who put together the interdisciplinary team that is reviving these ancient recipes in the kitchen. A fourth tablet was produced about 1,000 years later. All four tablets are from the Mesopotamian region, in what is today Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
"The tablets all list recipes that include instructions on how to prepare them," the authors write in a piece about their work published in Lapham's Quarterly earlier this year. "One is a summary collection of twenty-five recipes of stews or broths with brief directions. The other two tablets contain fewer recipes, each described in much more detail" ...
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/11/16/779930201/eat-like-the-ancient-babylonians-researchers-cook-up-nearly-4-000-year-old-recip
struggle4progress
(118,297 posts)By Gojko Barjamovic, Patricia Jurado Gonzalez, Chelsea A. Graham, Agnete W. Lassen, Nawal Nasrallah, and Pia M. Sörensen
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopotamian-tablet-cookbook
Sentath
(2,243 posts)untangling the bowels?
OR, being as there is no meat in it, would the prep process have been shorter? Something to fix after a busy day at a loom?
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)... oh wait, that's the instructions for the *tablet*.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Professor Mary Hussey, Mt. Holyoke College, 1876-1952
https://www.scribd.com/document/244000807/HUSSEY-2