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| The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean Bottero
Creator: Teresa Lavender Fagan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 353415
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0226067351
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5935
EAN: 9780226067353
ASIN: 0226067351
Publication Date: April 15, 2004
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Culinary historians, take note! August 4, 2008
This is a wonderful piece of scholarship, with a practical purpose. To my knowledge, this is a group of some of the earliest recipes ever translated. I have Apicius, and have done some of the recipes in it, but this takes culinary history back at least 1000 years earlier, and shows some fascinating parallels with both Middle Eastern/Persian cooking and Chinese. My only regrets or complaints are that we still do not know the translation behind some of the ingredients, which makes it difficult to actually try them, and that the clay tablets were damaged in places, which makes the list of ingredients incomplete in places. But the avenue of research is fascinating, and holds some real interesting keys to later cooking styles.
A must-have if culinary history interests you!
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