The Roman cookbook Apicius, formally titled De Re Coquinaria (“On the Subject of Cooking”), is the most complete surviving culinary text from the ancient world. Compiled in Latin, it is traditionally ...

The book is a treasured artifact, marked with strange stains and faded notations. Its worn cover and tattered pages suggest ...

The British Museum published The Medieval Cookbook, 80 authentic recipes translated and adapted into a modern cookbook. It contains meals like rose pudding, cabbage chowder, creamed fish, mutton ...

Okay, I can't keep up this medieval speak, but I do love the vibes. And as a food writer, I LOVE thinking about what and how people ate in other time periods.

Nowhere was this more true than in the culinary arts, which are the subject of "Medieval Arab Cookery," a 527-page compendium of writings by Maxime Rodinson, A.J. Arberry and Charles Perry.

The Kitāb al-ṭabīẖ (Cookbook in Arabic) is the oldest source in the world that contains explicitly Jewish recipes. Sephardi is the term used to refer to the Jews of Spain after 1492.