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The Pharaoh's Feast: From Pit-Boiled Roots to Pickled Herring, Cooking Through the Ages with 100 Simple Recipes
The Pharaoh's Feast From PitBoiled Roots to Pickled Herring Cooking Through the Ages with 100 Simple Recipes Author:Oswald Rivera Drawing on written sources from the fifth century, B.C. to today, veteran cookbook author Oswald Rivera recreates ingredient lists and recipes to allow modern cooks to prepare historic delights from Esau's biblical mess of pottage to contemporary pasta primavera. Packed with fun facts, this culinary history includes such treats as a seven-course... more » dinner from King Srenika's royal bash in first millennial Indus Valley, Colonial New England's Johny Cakes and the modern era's meatloaf. Black-and-white illustrations accompany this lively history of cooking.« less
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