How recreating ancient recipes helps one food buff bring the past to life

Max Miller shares how food can offer a unique doorway into how human beings have — or have not — changed over the course of history. With each ancient recipe brought back to life, Miller reaches across time to sit across the dinner table from our ancestors.Originally published on November 18, 2022.

But it's not really a recipe. What it is, is a description via a song of the beer-making process. Someone once said, it's a bit like trying to recreate beer today using the songas the recipe. You only have a little bit of information to go off of, but it's just interesting that they were making up songs about drinking, and about beer and their favourite beverages. It's the same thing that we do today. People just haven't changed all that much.

I do always picture someone who would have originally eaten it sitting across from me at the table and them really enjoying whatever it was. I'm intrigued by something you've said about the tradition of saying grace before meals, that when people said some version of grace or some way of giving thanks to a creator, to a god, to whomever, it wasn't just mechanical — or we say this because we've always said it — there was a sense that what we're doing here is a sacred act. And what we're eating is a sacred thing. Tell me a little bit more about that.

Looking forward to a meal because you haven't eaten all day and you've been marching and everything. And when you get to that meal, it's rock hard and very likely has weevils and worms who have eaten half of it. And it's bland, they rarely even had salt in it. So it's, again, it's the gratefulness.They were grateful for that hardtack. Granted, they complained about it. They knew there was something better out there. But even that was special at the moment.

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