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The World of Parsi Cooking: Interview with Niloufer Mavalvala
In this exclusive interview, Niloufer Mavalvala, author of The Art of Parsi Cooking: Reviving an Ancient Cuisine, speaks to James Blake Wiener of Ancient History Encyclopedia (AHE) once again about the joys of Parsi cuisine and her new title...
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Cooking Brazier (Eschara)
A shallow rectangular cooking brazier (eschara) in terracotta, including cover. 6th-4th century BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)
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Cooking Hearth With Cover
A shallow terracotta cooking hearth with bell-shaped cover. 6th-4th centuries BCE. (Agora Museum, Athens)
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Roman Bronze Cooking Pot
A Roman bronze cooking pot, 1st century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)
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The World of Parsi Cooking by Niloufer Mavalvala
Front cover of Niloufer Mavalvala's new book The World of Parsi Cooking
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De Re Coquinaria ('The Art of Cooking')
1541 CE manuscript of Apicius' De Re Coquinaria - a Roman cookbook - here named De Re Culinaria.
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Bronze Zhou Cooking Vessel
A Western Zhou ceremonial bronze of cooking-vessel form inscribed to record that the King of Zhou gave a fiefdom to Shi You, ordering that he inherit the title as well as the land and people living there. Bronze Gui of Shi You (food container...
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Norse Cooking Pot
Remnants of a Viking cooking pot
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2017
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Marcus Gavius Apicius
Marcus Gavius Apicius, a wealthy and educated member of the Roman elite who lived during the reign of Emperor Tiberius (14-37 CE), is famous for his love of food and a cookbook titled De Re Coquinaria (The Art of Cooking). He was a model...
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Medieval Cooking Scene
A scene showing meat being cooked on a spit in a medieval kitchen. From The Decameron, Flanders, 1432 CE. (Biblioteque Nationale, Paris)