The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia

Until recently the oldest cuisine we knew in depth was that of ancient Rome. The recovery of a half-million written documents from numerous sites in the ancient Near East, however, has now shown us that the culture of Mesopotamia also included a discriminating choice of foodstuffs and advanced techn...

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Published in:The Biblical archaeologist
Main Author: Bottéro, Jean (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholars Press 1985
In: The Biblical archaeologist
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Summary:Until recently the oldest cuisine we knew in depth was that of ancient Rome. The recovery of a half-million written documents from numerous sites in the ancient Near East, however, has now shown us that the culture of Mesopotamia also included a discriminating choice of foodstuffs and advanced techniques for preparing them.
Contains:Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3209946