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Beer is recorded in the written history of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt and is one of the world's oldest prepared beverages. [75]Kykeon was a common beverage of sustenance in ancient Greece, most often consisting mainly of a barley gruel mixture with various additives, sometimes written as having psychoactive properties associated with religious visions.
The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 CE) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine. Apicius, also known as De re culinaria or De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking), is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, which may have been compiled in the fifth century CE, [1] or earlier.
The oldest, found in the Archives cantonales du Valais (Sion, Switzerland), was written in the late 13th or very early 14th century, and was largely overlooked until the 1950s. [2] It is this manuscript that calls into question the authorship of Tirel, but a portion of it is missing at the beginning, so the title and author given for this ...
A dish from the Chilean archipelago of Chiloé might just be one of the world's oldest recipes. Archaeologists found a 6,000-year old cooking pit there with what held an early form of curanto, a ...
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The large collection of recipes De re coquinaria, conventionally titled Apicius, appeared in the 4th or 5th century and is the only complete surviving cookbook from the classical world. [5] It lists the courses served in a meal as Gustatio (appetizer), Primae Mensae (main course) and Secundae Mensae (dessert). [ 6 ]
The world’s oldest wine has been discovered at a Roman burial site in Carmona, Spain. ... The best fudge recipe you’ll ever make comes from the back of a jar. Food. Eating Well.
1390: The English cookbook, The Forme of Cury, published, including one of the earliest recipes for frumenty; 15th century: The Portuguese began fishing cod [69] ~1450: Written records of palm oil being used as food from European travelers to West Africa. [40] 1494: First record of cucumbers cultivation by the Spanish in Hispaniola, Caribbean ...