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In a 4,000-year-old oven located near the Assyrian city of Nineveh, archaeologists found traces of fava beans and wheat mixed together. This made me think of a risotto with fava beans, but with bulgur instead of rice. Bulgur is essentially parboiled wheat that has been dried and cracked, and its making dates back to the third millennium BC in ancient Mesopotamia.

A while back, the gastronomic advisor to the Nobel banquet in Stockholm, Fredrik Eriksson, served this Assyrian bulgurotto to hundreds of delighted guests at his renowned restaurant in Sweden’s National Museum.

Visit tableofgods.com/bulgurotto if you want to try it (you don't have to be a chef to make it).

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My family ❤️ The recipe creators of Table of Gods. Wishing you a warm and peaceful Christmas 🎄

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Sumerian Proverb

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“By Adad and Ishtar, I swear it—every day, seven thousand of my soldiers ate chops with me.”
— Sargon the Great

This is one of 60+ Mesopotamian recipes from my upcoming cookbook, Table of Gods. Visit tableofgods.com/chops to get the recipe.

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Babylonian Proverb

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Tolkien would've been jealous of my setup and 13.3-inch macbook.

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The word “kebab” derives from the Akkadian verb kababu, meaning “to burn”. From this verb comes the noun gabbubu, an ancient Assyrian dish of grilled ovine meat. And in a relief from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, over 2,500 years ago, Assyrian soldiers are shown grilling gabbubu over an open fire.

As I traveled through the Assyrian heartland while doing research for my cookbook, Table of Gods, I ate gabbubu at least once a day for a week. Whether I ordered it at a stand or in a restaurant, it was always prepared the same way: lamb grilled on skewers and served on freshly baked flatbread with thick yogurt sauce and greens—just like it may have been served thousands of years ago.

Despite serious threats from my friend, a gabbubu master who insists the meat should be cooked over a fire, here I’m offering you an adapted version you can make in your kitchen.

Here are photos from recipe testers who’ve brought the recipe back to life.

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Here are some recipe testers cooking an ancient soup recipe from the city of Mari, ca. 1800 BC. The recipe calls for one large egg, and while you know I mean a chicken egg, the chefs of Mari would have thought of an ostrich egg.

If you come across an ostrich egg and want to use it, scale everything by a factor of twenty—that’s how much larger it is compared to a chicken egg. Also, don’t throw away the shell. Artisans in Mari used ostrich eggshells to make art objects.

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