Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes

For a limited time we have bookplates signed by Max Miller. Tasting History with Max Miller is a popular and engaging YouTube channel which takes its explorations of food history seriously.  The same is true of this, Max Miller's first book. Miller, a former marketing executive, is an appealing presenter who uses his recreation of historically significant dishes to weave in discussions of what we know about who was making the food, what they were cooking with, and—just as important—how we know it. Rather than speak or write with unwarranted certainty, when necessary Miller will explain the basis for conjecture about what kinds of ingredients were available where, along with how those foods, from wine to vegetables, may have changed in intervening centuries. Miller’s range of sources are historical and literary, citing everything: Images on the wall of the tomb of a court official during the the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt  Scappi’s Opera dell’aere del cucinare  Texts from the Mughal