Book cover of Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes (A Cookbook)

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Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the world with the first cookbook from the beloved YouTube channel Tasting History with Max Miller

What began as a passion project when Max Miller was furloughed during Covid-19 has become a viral YouTube sensation. The Tasting History with…

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Some real history is too weird to be made up. The same goes for real food. But once you get into historical food, the sky is the limit for total strangeness.

You can open this book to any page and end up picking up some choice bit of knowledge to enliven your dinner conversation or historical recipe to enliven dinner itself. Did you ever want to be able to say, “You know this lamb stew? It’s the same kind that was served at a Babylonian annual spring festival where the main event was a priestess walloping the king straight across…

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