Textes Culinaires Mesopotamiens: Mesopotamian Culinary Texts

by Jean Bottéro

The oldest surviving recipes in the world, dating from the mid-second millennium B.C.E., are here given their definitive transcription, translation, and commentary by a renowned Assyriologist and master chef. Examining each recipe in detail, Bottero identifies, insofar as we are able, the ingredients to be used, the methods of preparation, garnishment, and the presentation of the finished culinary delight. The series editor, Jerrold S. Cooper,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931464927
• ISBN13: 9780931464928
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 272 Pages