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This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating in ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.
~3900 BCE: In Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq), early evidence of beer is a Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, which contains the oldest surviving beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread. [36] ~3600 BCE: Date of the oldest definitive known evidence for popcorn, discovered in New Mexico, United ...
Slightly different from the frozen dinner selection at stores today, TV dinners increased in popularity when television sets became a staple in U.S. households in the late 1950s.
A plate of scrapple, a traditional dish of the Delaware Valley region made of pork and cornmeal, still eaten today. Fats and oils made from animals served to cook many colonial foods. Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.
“This finding in Çatalhöyük is the world’s oldest bread,” the head of the excavation, Ali Umut Turkcan, told Anadolu Agency, a Turkish state-run newspaper. The 8,600-year-old bread found ...
From Hershey's to Toblerone, here are eight of the oldest candy bars in the world, all of which are still around and available for purchase today. Lindt chocolate 1.
Some traditional foods featured in the cuisine include: Atole (a drink made using masa) [12] and Chocolate Atole (with the addition of chocolate) also known as champurrado. [13] Two classic maize dishes are: boiling maize in water and lime, mixing with chili peppers and eating as gruel; dough preparation for flat cakes, tamales and tortillas. [14]
This is a category for notable foods that were once eaten but are no longer commonly eaten, or which are no longer eaten in their original form. Subcategories This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.