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Max Miller approves: a 3,770yo Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for meat and veggie stews. (recipes inside!) (lemmy.nz)
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Modern food blogs wish they had this level of longevity. No popups, no ads, just stew!

A Babylonian stew prepared by Tasting History if anyone wants to try out an updated recipe:
https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/babylonianlambstew

and a Babylonian tuh'u specifically made for the New Year celebrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYYhoO-hiY

And just yesterday Max posted a video about assyrian pomegranate beer
https://youtu.be/MO0lKDNKxmE

Table of the Gods is a similar channel specifically about recipes of ancient Mesopotamia. Very neat stuff, some of which I believe comes from this very tablet.

All this content proudly and shamelessly lifted from the evil empire. 🙂

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[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 19 hours ago

No one’s eyes are that blue. And no one’s apron is that clean while cooking. But I’ll be watching this regardless.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Ooh, ooh! Is it Buddy Cole time? :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQCyAQBgXY

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