Food: A Cultural Culinary History

 Apart from population pressure being a possible catalyst, resources they had been depending on suddenly become scarce. This i ...

Lecture 2: What Early Agriculturalists Ate  In addition, there is the wild ancestor of wheat all over the Fertile Crescent. Ei ...

but rather, they either did not need agriculture or there just weren’t the right plants and animals that could be domesticated. ...

Lecture 2: What Early Agriculturalists Ate and cooking for the elite. This is the fi rst time that there was anything like a pro ...

 Cheese is a product of bacteria, and next to the few new domesticated species, the most important new foods invented by the e ...

Lecture 2: What Early Agriculturalists Ate Bottéro, The Oldest Cuisine in the World. Brothwell, Food in Antiquity. McGovern, Unc ...

Akkadian Recipe Three surviving cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia constitute the earliest recorded recipes on Earth. Th ...

Lecture 3: Egypt and the Gift of the Nile Egypt and the Gift of the Nile........................................................ ...

developed court culture surrounding the pharaoh, which means highly developed artistic traditions, including the culinary arts, ...

Lecture 3: Egypt and the Gift of the Nile structure with the pharaoh as not only an absolute ruler, but also as a semidivine bei ...

fi rst offered it to the gods and then redistributed it. There is also evidence that grain could be used for taxation purposes. ...

Lecture 3: Egypt and the Gift of the Nile African. Sheep were mostly kept for wool, which priests weren’t allowed to wear, and w ...

to precisely identify the species that they ate from Egyptian words or paintings, and there aren’t remains as with other animals ...

Lecture 3: Egypt and the Gift of the Nile  Many fruits—including fi gs, date palm, apples, plums, carob, and pomegranate—were ...

some water, leaving it in a sunny spot, and waiting until they just begin to sprout. Turn them around every now and then, drain ...

Lecture 4: Ancient Judea—From Eden to Kosher Laws Ancient Judea—From Eden to Kosher Laws.................................... Lec ...

probably knew: that their ancestors hunted. The story needed a fall from perfection; it had to show that evil is the fault of hu ...

Lecture 4: Ancient Judea—From Eden to Kosher Laws The Great Flood and Noah’s Ark  There is a cataclysmic fl ood. Everyone and ...

every household would die, and the way Moses signals to the angel of death to avoid the Hebrew households is by having them smea ...

Lecture 4: Ancient Judea—From Eden to Kosher Laws Mount Sinai and is given the law. This is a whole new epoch in dietary history ...