Cooking Was Already a Form of Art in the Bronze Age, Reveals Study
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Recipes included goat, cereals, or gazelle cooked over low heat in clay pots. Cooks used pots with different thermal properties, depending on the type of food they were going to prepare.
4,500 years ago, the cuisine in Syria was already surprisingly sophisticated. Recipes based on goat, cereal or gazelle were slowly cooked in clay pots, according to a study conducted by Danish researchers and released last Friday, September 11.
Picture 1: Remains of 4,500 years old olives. Picture 2: Remains of barley. Picture 3: Pots. The post 4,500 years old food remains testify to sophisticated cooking art in the Bronze Age first appeared on Nordisch.info.
For the first time, a team from the National Museum of Denmark has managed to find out what was actually cooked inside the pots of the ancient city of Hama, in Syria, 4,500 years ago. The analysis of animal bones, vegetable remains and fats attached to the walls of containers reveals a surprisingly varied diet, with [...]
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