Post by @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social

2026-10-16 12:50 UTC

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!) 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?si=SaZ6ZLLlOmNBvaEO @tableofgods?si=5cbT4T2J-0ScQNRV@youtube.com 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. 🙂

Replies (9)

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2026-10-16 13:02

Love me some Tasting History.

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@negativenull@piefed.world 2026-10-16 13:08

One of my favorite Youtube channels! So good!

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@schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2026-10-16 13:12

As a feral Iberian still struggling with preparing acorns I might have to look into this new ‘recipe’ thing. Hope it’s not just microwave recipes, which wasn’t invented here yet. (Note to self: cooking acorns in milk makes milk coagulate?)

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@Zephorah@discuss.online 2026-10-16 14:10

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

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@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-16 14:38

I was hoping for a list of all the recipes :( newly vegetarian, and wanted to try some 10 thousand year old veggie stews

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@EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-16 16:27

I stopped watching tasting history when he posted selfies of himself at the world cup. He should absolutely do better.

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@hansolo@lemmy.today 2026-10-16 18:02

Love Tasting History! I appreciate that he actually tries the food. I’ve made Tuh’u before (second link), and it’s rich. Easy to see how ancient people would have been all about it. Ancient and especially people from when spices were a flex, had such strange tastes.

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@notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2026-10-16 21:13

The crumbled part is the classification saying this was the rejected recipes.

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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-10-17 07:35

The 25 page story about author’s life will teach us so much about babylon!!

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