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How To Behave At An Ancient Roman Banquet
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 4/8/25 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 4/8/25

How To Behave At An Ancient Roman Banquet

Acceptable behavior at ancient Roman dinner parties, and a spiral-shaped sweet from 2nd century B.C.E. Rome

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How To Host An Ancient Roman Dinner
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 4/1/25 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 4/1/25

How To Host An Ancient Roman Dinner

How to throw an ancient Roman dinner party, and a 2,000 year old recipe for flamingo, which I’m recreating with duck

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Mesopotamian Mersu - History's Oldest Dessert
North Africa & the Near East, Ancient Max Miller 3/18/25 North Africa & the Near East, Ancient Max Miller 3/18/25

Mesopotamian Mersu - History's Oldest Dessert

The rulers of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Mari, and a recreation of one of their favorite treats inspired by a clay tablet found in the ruins

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Pineapples - The Most Expensive Fruit in History
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/18/25 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/18/25

Pineapples - The Most Expensive Fruit in History

The history of ridiculously expensive pineapples in Europe, and an 18th century recipe for delicious pineapple tarts

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Feeding Emperor Augustus Caesar - Handmade Roman Cheese
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/11/25 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/11/25

Feeding Emperor Augustus Caesar - Handmade Roman Cheese

The complexity of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and a two thousand year old recipe for fresh cheese that he might have enjoyed

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Feeding Alexander the Great
Rome, Greece, Ancient Max Miller 11/26/24 Rome, Greece, Ancient Max Miller 11/26/24

Feeding Alexander the Great

Feasting with Alexander the Great and an ancient Roman recipe for a complex sauce for poultry using ingredients that Alexander would have had

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Ancient Roman Cheesecake - Savillum
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 11/5/24 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 11/5/24

Ancient Roman Cheesecake - Savillum

The foods served at lavish ancient Roman feasts and a recipe from the 2nd century BC for an early form of cheesecake

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The Deadly Job of Royal Food Taster
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 7/23/24 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 7/23/24

The Deadly Job of Royal Food Taster

The history of one of the worst jobs: food taster, and a (non-toxic) recipe for mushrooms that might have poisoned the Roman Emperor Claudius

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Recreating the Last Meal of Ötzi the Iceman
Austria, Italy, Ancient Max Miller 6/4/24 Austria, Italy, Ancient Max Miller 6/4/24

Recreating the Last Meal of Ötzi the Iceman

The amazing research on prehistoric Ötzi the Iceman, and my take on what his last meal could have been

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Ancient Egyptian Spiral Bread of the Pharaoh
North Africa & the Near East, Ancient Max Miller 5/14/24 North Africa & the Near East, Ancient Max Miller 5/14/24

Ancient Egyptian Spiral Bread of the Pharaoh

The importance of bread in ancient Egypt, and a recipe for spiral-shaped loaves recreated from the walls of Ramses III’s tomb

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The Colosseum: What It Was Like to be a Spectator
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/13/24 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 2/13/24

The Colosseum: What It Was Like to be a Spectator

What going to the Colosseum was like, from acquiring a ticket to the schedule of the day, and an ancient recipe for stuffed dates that you could have snacked on

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The History of Fish Sauce - Garum and Beyond!
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 12/26/23 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 12/26/23

The History of Fish Sauce - Garum and Beyond!

The history of different types of fermented fish sauce throughout the world and a sweet recipe using my homemade Roman garum

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Ancient Roman Garum Revisited
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 11/7/23 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 11/7/23

Ancient Roman Garum Revisited

True fermented ancient Roman fish sauce and more garum history, because who doesn’t love the history of garum

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Eating Like an Ancient Greek Olympian
Greece, Ancient Max Miller 10/10/23 Greece, Ancient Max Miller 10/10/23

Eating Like an Ancient Greek Olympian

The diet and training of ancient Greek Olympians and a recipe for marinated skewers that could have been served with feta, figs, and barley bread

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Hannibal & the Food of Carthage
Ancient, North Africa & the Near East Max Miller 8/8/23 Ancient, North Africa & the Near East Max Miller 8/8/23

Hannibal & the Food of Carthage

Hannibal Barca, the brilliant Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War, and Cato the Elder, who very much wanted Carthage destroyed

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How to Eat like a Celtic Druid
France, Ancient Max Miller 7/25/23 France, Ancient Max Miller 7/25/23

How to Eat like a Celtic Druid

Celtic table manners, food, and cooking methods, and a hearty stew they could have eaten

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Making the 2000 Year Old “Pizza” from Pompeii
Rome, Ancient Max Miller 7/11/23 Rome, Ancient Max Miller 7/11/23

Making the 2000 Year Old “Pizza” from Pompeii

The recently uncovered fresco in Pompeii that depicts what could be a pizza, and Pompeiian breadmaking

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Itrion
Greece, Ancient Max Miller 6/6/23 Greece, Ancient Max Miller 6/6/23

Itrion

The energy bar of Ancient Greece and the citizen-soldiers who would have eaten them

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Feeding the Army of Roman Britain
Rome, British Isles, Ancient Max Miller 3/28/23 Rome, British Isles, Ancient Max Miller 3/28/23

Feeding the Army of Roman Britain

What Roman soldiers ate at the edge of the empire (a.k.a. Britain)

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Brewing Mesopotamian Beer - 4,000 Years Old
Ancient, North Africa & the Near East Max Miller 12/27/22 Ancient, North Africa & the Near East Max Miller 12/27/22

Brewing Mesopotamian Beer - 4,000 Years Old

The important role of beer in very ancient Sumer, and a recipe for it that is recreated from a hymn

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