Kitchen

[NoelSeven]

I've collected many cookbooks over the years, as did my mother, so this is fascinating to me

The oldest cookbook, circa 1750 BC, from the time of Hammurabi, known for his famous law code... Babylonian. The tablets are written in cuneiform and contain recipes for meats, fish & foul, vegetables and... BEER!

It's assumed the recipes were meant for the royal palace or the temple.

You can read more about the recipes on the link and see photos of archaeological finds about early food:

http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/exhibitions/cuisine.html

[NoelSeven]

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[sfnative]

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

Interesting to note that the method of preparing the plate/platter with bread and a bread lid onto which the bird(s) were placed was used for well over 1,800 years. Love it!

[NoelSeven]

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

"archeology/anthropology" my first and lasting love... and my college minor

Happy New Year, sfnative... our city is cold today, but at least the wild winds have died down.

[HonnyBrown]

Wow thanks for sharing!!!!! I love cooking history!

[NoelSeven]

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

Interesting to note that the method of preparing the plate/platter with bread and a bread lid onto which the bird(s) were placed was used for well over 1,800 years. Love it!

Just saw your added comment. It reminds me of the sourdough bread place in Stonestown that served clam chowder in a bread bowl with a bread top, and...

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye,

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened

The birds began to sing—

Wasn't that a dainty dish

To set before the king?

[NoelSeven]

On 1/1/2015 HonnyBrown said:

Wow thanks for sharing!!!!! I love cooking history!

Happy New Year, Honny I'm glad you're enjoying this.

[sfnative]

On 1/1/2015 NoelSeven said:

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

"archeology/anthropology" my first and lasting love... and my college minor

Happy New Year, sfnative... our city is cold today, but at least the wild winds have died down.

Brrr. It's cold here, too. Just took a look outside: it's 24 degrees.

My Dad was the one who gently made the ancient civilizations available to us as children, as our coffee table had a statue of an Egyptian scribe on it, a copy of The Book of the Dead, several tomes relative to ancient history with many plates in each volume, most of which had been printed in the 19th century and the ever-present "National Geographic" magazine.

We also lived 4 blocks from Golden Gate Park, so I made many solo trips to the de Young Museum to stand and stare/study the ancient exhibits. I still have a drawing I made of an Assyrian king on a rainy Saturday: copied it from a photo of his carved head at the age of 10. One of these days, it should get framed, as it's really pretty good. (Brag, brag.)

Happy New Year to you, Noel.

[sfnative]

On 1/1/2015 NoelSeven said:

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

Interesting to note that the method of preparing the plate/platter with bread and a bread lid onto which the bird(s) were placed was used for well over 1,800 years. Love it!

Just saw your added comment. It reminds me of the sourdough bread place in Stonestown that served clam chowder in a bread bowl with a bread top, and...

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye,

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened

The birds began to sing—

Wasn't that a dainty dish

To set before the king?

Noel,

Are you referring to the Galleria or the old Stonestown?

Edited to add: I think you're referring to the Stonestown Galleria and the Boudin Bakery almost next door to Macy's at the north end. yes?

[NoelSeven]

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

On 1/1/2015 NoelSeven said:

On 1/1/2015 sfnative said:

Thanks for sharing! I not only love archeology/anthropology, but cooking as well. Great article to start the new year.

Interesting to note that the method of preparing the plate/platter with bread and a bread lid onto which the bird(s) were placed was used for well over 1,800 years. Love it!

Just saw your added comment. It reminds me of the sourdough bread place in Stonestown that served clam chowder in a bread bowl with a bread top, and...

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye,

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened

The birds began to sing—

Wasn't that a dainty dish

To set before the king?

Noel,

Are you referring to the Galleria or the old Stonestown?

Edited to add: I think you're referring to the Stonestown Galleria and the Boudin Bakery almost next door to Macy's at the north end. yes?

Yes, the Galleria and Boudin's. I couldn't think of the name of the bakery for a minute.