The oldest cuisine in the world

Have you ever wondered about the oldest recipes in history? They were discovered on four clay tablets from about 1,700 BCE at the time of the Assyrian Empire. Did you know that about 5 million Assyrians still live around the world today? This year, a cookbook was published that is the first modern collection of exclusively Assyrian cuisine, food that has a lot of overlap with those ancient tablets. It’s called The Oldest Kitchen in the World , and in it, Matay de Mayee records the recipes of his mother, Smuni Turan — recipes her ancestors have been passing down orally for centuries. Today, they join Lilah in the studio to talk about their kitchen. ------- The Oldest Kitchen in the World is published in English, Dutch and German — in Dutch and German its title is Haniyé. You can find it in bookshops in the US, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and online. ------- Send us your predictions! Write to Lilah at lilahrap@ft.com or on Instagram @ lilahrap . And — thank you. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The oldest cuisine in the world is an episode from FT Everything Else by Forhecz Topher.

This episode is 27:46 long.

This episode was published on Dec 9, 2024.

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