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I’ve been preparing a historic dinner from Ancient Rome, based on recipes from Apicius’ cookbook De re coquinaria, with lots of good and organic ingredients from our own soil. Starting …

A 2,000-year-old ancient Roman recipe for a succulent, tangy and tender pork shoulder braised in a traditional Roman raisin wine sauce and served with grape must biscuits.

Surprising as it may seem, we know quite a lot about the food which prehistoric people ate. Much of our information comes simply from archaeological finds and also from just studying the landscape with its flora and fauna. Now and again archaeologists discover concrete evidence about food preparation and sometimes even the remains of foodstuffs. […]

“Your love has penetrated all within me Like honey plunged into water, Like an odor which penetrates spices.” ~ Ancient Egyptian poem recorded in Love Songs of the New Kingdom Fruits an…

Tucking into a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings is a surprisingly modern Christmas tradition dating back to the 16th century.

Did ancient Romans spend their time indulging in lavish banquets? Not really. Ordinary people ate ordinary meals that were not very different from what we eat today.

Dinner in antiquity was almost always a social affair shared with a few close friends at someone’s home.

We don't have a whole lot of recipes from Ancient Egypt. There's one that was actually written down on a tablet, that we do have a record of (and we'll share that one here). But what we do know, are the crops the Ancient Egyptians grew, and with this knowledge in hand, we can recreate a pretty fun Egyptian Feast. Dried figs and melon What crops do we know for sure? The Egyptians grew wheat, barley, cucumbers, leeks, garlic, figs, melons, pomegranates and watermelon. We know the Middle East…

“The priest brought down a small idol made of this dough. Its eyes were small green beads, and its teeth were grains of corn…he ascended to the place where those who were to be sacrific…