"Max Miller, the creator and host of the beloved YouTube series Tasting History with Max Miller, sojourns back millennia to explore the meals left behind in history. From the healing potions of Ancient Greece to meat cakes enjoyed by Genghis Khan's descendants during the Chinese Mongol Empire, Miller excavates a range of alluring recipes you could never order at a restaurant today. While staying true to the source texts, each recipe is optimized for modern kitchens and quilted together through dexterous research and arresting storytelling. Playful and illuminating, this book demonstrates how cuisine can be a repository of traditions, mythologies, political turmoil, and societal transformations of a people"--Page 2 of cover.
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