Skip to content
Breaking News

Breaking News

  • Home
  • World
  • Business
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Life Style
  • Sports
  • Toggle search form

World’s oldest recipe discovered and is ‘very’ different from today

Posted on April 19, 2025 By Admin No Comments on World’s oldest recipe discovered and is ‘very’ different from today


A representational image shows a pot containing broth with vegetables. — Unsplash/File

Cooking has remained an art passed down orally and not often documented in writing for much of history.

Mass-produced cookbooks, cooking how-to videos and recipe blogs may be relatively recent inventions, however, our ancestors liked cooking too, reported Live Science.

Remnants of food resembling our own have been found by the archaeologists all over the world. These include traces of burnt porridge on Stone Age pots to “beer loves” of bread in ancient Egypt.

So what’s the oldest known recipe?

The answer hails back to one of the oldest civilisations, even though their recipes look a little different from the ones we see today.

Figuring out if an ancient document is a recipe actually poses big challenges for archaeologists, while it may seem obvious with modern-day recipes.

According to Farrell Monaco, an honorary visiting fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Leicester who specializes in ancient Roman breads, “recipes” as we know them are a modern invention.

Ancient instructions for making food often didn’t have weights and measures the way today’s cookbooks do; precisely measured recipes became common only within the past few hundred years, Monaco said.

Additionally, in the 1980s, archaeologist Jean Bottéro confirmed that the Babylonian tablets were actually recipes.

Still, he declared the food described on the tablets as inedible. It wasn’t until recently that any of the recipes were revisited.

Parallel to this, Gojko Barjamovic, a senior lecturer and senior research scholar in Assyriology at Yale, worked with an interdisciplinary team at Harvard to translate and recreate the recipes.

Because many of the tablets were damaged, this was a challenge as it made them difficult to read.

Barjamovic’s team was able to fill in the blanks to reconstruct the ancient foods even though some important ingredients on the tablets were untranslatable.

It was found that the tablets contained instructions for broths, a pie stuffed with songbird, green wheat, 25 types of vegetarian and meat-based stews, and some sort of small, cooked mammal.

The recipes resembled modern-day food from Iraq in many ways, with ingredients such as lamb and cilantro.

Notably, these tablets are the oldest known recipes, and there are also no known recipes that come after them for a long time. 





Source link

Life Style

Post navigation

Previous Post: Pakistan agrees to IMF demand of prioritising climate-friendly projects
Next Post: Bengaluru Airport Cab Crisis Worsens After 2 Electric Cab Operators Shut Down Services – News18

More Related Articles

16 Books to Read in September Life Style
WATCH: Girl swings huge snake around ‘like a hammer thrower’ to save guinea pig Life Style
Unsweetened Masala Tea and Its Impact on Metabolism and Weight Management – News18 Life Style
FDA stops sale of generic versions of Ozempic and Wegovy: What it means for patients Life Style
Met Opera Taps Its Endowment Again to Weather Downturn Life Style
First-of-its-kind study finds laughter is indeed good medicine Life Style

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • Pakistan to Bowl First Against Australia in ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup – SUCH TV
  • New Zealand’s Coastal Waters Heating Up Faster Than World Average – SUCH TV
  • Taylor Swift clarifies she didn’t talk about her engagement at Selena Gomez’s wedding
  • Mangoes More Effective Than Low-Sugar Snacks in Reducing Prediabetes Risk, Study Finds – SUCH TV
  • ICC urged to end ‘pre-arranged’ India-Pakistan clashes

Categories

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Life Style
  • Sports
  • World

Copyright © 2025 Breaking News.

Powered by PressBook Blog WordPress theme