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 someContinue reading “Green Cheese from an Egyptian Bronze Age grave”

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 whenContinue reading “Mousse au miel with rose water and a blackberry sauce”

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! ToContinue reading “Ancient Egyptian Halva”

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 aContinue reading “Leek soup from the Babylonian Yale Tablets”