The Pharaoh's Feast: From Pit-Boiled Roots to Pickled Herring, Cooking Through the Ages With 110 Simple Recipes - Softcover

Rivera, Oswald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156858282X ISBN 13: 9781568582825

Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Subtitled `From pit-boiled roots to pickled herring, cooking through the ages with 110 simple recipes', this book is the culmination of a cooking adventure for the author Oswald Rivera. Aside from the brief introductions to each section the book is essentially a collection of recipes and ingredients lists from across the world, extracted from written sources dating from the mid-5th century BC onwards. Despite the rather misleading title, recipes are presented not only from Egypt, but from Classical Greece, the Indus Valley, medieval Europe, the Arab world, the Far East and the Americas.

About this title

Product Description

Unusual book

Synopsis

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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156858282X
• ISBN 13: 9781568582825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256