This is a cookbook written in clay.
Nearly 4,000 years ago, Babylonian recipes were recorded in cuneiform. One surviving tablet contains recipes for 25 stews.
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Dinner from a cookbook written in clay
A Yale–Harvard team translated and tested recipes from the tablets.
They recreated lamb with beetroot, another lamb stew with milk and grain cakes, and a vegetarian dish enriched with beer bread.
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Dinner from a cookbook written in clay
The food in this footage is a modern reconstruction of those ancient recipes.
The ingredients and cooking connect us with people who were planning dinner almost 4,000 years ago.
