Roman bread from Germania Inferior

Last July The Lower German Limes was added to the Unesco World Heritage List. What [...]

Roman wine – Conditum paradoxum

It’s overwhelmingly clear from ancient art, archeology, and primary sources that the Romans loved their [...]

Cooking from clay tablets: Babylonian lamb stew

There is not much written information about ancient cuisine from Near Eastern civilizations. Art and [...]

Rome sweet Rome

Romans were sweet tooth. But how sweet was sweet in ancient Rome? The answer to [...]

Eating flower bulbs during Second World War

Every year on the 4th of May, Dutch Second World War Remembrance Day, I give [...]

Bean Dip from the Second World War

Legumes have been at the base of our eating habits for centuries. They are very [...]

Hot cross buns: an Easter treat

It’s Easter time! In the Christian tradition, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus three days [...]

Roman dice bread – kyboi

Ancient sources mention a lot of ingredients that were used in bread. Some of them [...]

Roman bread & Panis Quadratus

Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) already knew: “The excellence of the finest kinds of bread [...]

Valentine’s day Shortbread with Royal Icing

In an earlier blog we wrote about the history of Scottish shortbread: a delicious cookie, [...]