Recipes from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and the Levant
Green Cheese from an Egyptian Bronze Age grave
An Egyptian recipe. I do love cheese, every kind of cheese. When I lived in Paris some years ago, I loved to have just some cheese and baguette for dinner – my flatmate and me actually had bread and cheese most of the evenings! Now I will be able to study cheese production for some…
Mousse au miel with rose water and a blackberry sauce
A Levantine recipe. When I am searching for ideas for my blog, salty dishes are most often coming to my mind. This is a pity, as I particularly love sweets and I love baking! Consequently I have been thinking about a fancy dessert for a while until I got inspired: Some weeks ago, just when…
Uluburun Stew
A Levantine recipe. Many years ago – during the 14th century BC – a merchant ship sunk near the Turkish coast. The shipwreck contained various trade assets – gold, copper, tin, glass – but also such as foodstuffs. There were spices, pulses and even parts of different fruits -probably for amking some food for the…
Ancient Egyptian Halva
An Egyptian recipe. A while ago Philipp Stockhammer told me about a Medieval Egyptian cookbook, called „The sultan’s feast – a fifteenth-century Egyptian cookbook“. Of course, recipes from the 15th century AD are not directly comparable with those of the Bronze Age, but I thought I might find some inspiration. And indeed, I did! To…
Leek soup from the Babylonian Yale Tablets
A Mesopotamian recipe. The first time I heard about the Yale Culinary Tablets was when some scientist from Yale University had recooked three of those recipes. The newspapers understandably wrote a lot about this experiment! Naturally, I tried to get these Old Babylonian recipes! And I did – and practically I could also join a…
Luise´s Bronze Age Feast 