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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 ...
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.
By classical times, the Greeks were using them for both food and animal fodder. [66] Garden peas [3] [67] – Peas are commonly found in some of the earliest archaeological sites in Greece, but are rarely mentioned in classical literature. However Hesiod and Theophrastus both include them as food eaten by Greeks [63]: 381
The 8,600-year-old bread dough was made of barley, wheat and peas, one of the researchers involved in the analysis, Salih Kavak, said in the release. The flour had been mixed with water and left ...
Helmeted guinea fowl in tall grass. Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [2]
Ambrosia salad. Dating back to the ancient Greeks, ambrosia salad began appearing in cookbooks in the 1800s when citrus fruit was easier to get ahold of, and soon became an American staple across ...
The technique of gavage, cramming food into the mouth of domesticated ducks and geese, dates as far back as 2500 BC, when the Egyptians began keeping birds for food. [14] [15] [16] A 14th century book translated and published in 2017 lists 10 recipes for sparrow which was eaten for its aphrodisiac properties. [17]