Prehistoric Cooking

As well written as I expected it to be.She's good.

This book gives recipes based on research, and it also gives a feel for the people who would have cooked them.Informative and useful.

I was maybe expecting more recipes and pictures of the food than historic facts but all in all it's a decent book.

Love this book. We make several of the recipes weekly.

great book. very interesting.

"Prehistoric Cooking" looks at what archaeology can tell us about food in prehistoric Britian. The author initially explained what archaeology has uncovered about food practices in prehistory, hunter-gatherer, bronze, and iron ages. This included types of food and how they got it (gathered wild vs. raised). I like that she doesn't think prehistoric people were stupid just because they didn't have a written history yet.Next, she talked about the experimental archaeology she's been doing using this knowledge and the knowledge of primitive societies today to uncover likely cooking methods and recipes. She talked some about how the food was actually cooked, but she didn't give the high level of detail I was hoping for. The photographs from some of the demonstrations they've done and of some of the cooking steps for several recipes did help, though. There was enough detail that I think I could make the recipes work successfully with a little experimenting of my own.About two-thirds of the book was recipes and related cooking methods, and they were divided into the categories: bread; dairy; meat, fish, and vegetable stews; cooking with hot stones; clay-baked foods; salt and the seashore menu; peas, beans, and lentils; herbs and spices; vegetables; yeast, wines, beer, and teas; sweets and puddings. Some of these recipes use plants that don't grow in my section of the world (southern USA), but others did. Though I didn't buy the book for the recipes, I think I'll try a couple of them since she makes it sound fun and do-able.

I bought this as resource material for a project I was working on and found it very useful. it's a good book covering a fairly specialist and limited field but it certainly gave me plenty of ideas and pointers to add to my own knowledge.

a good book

Some interesting food for thought.

Great recipes and foundational "story telling" on the recipes' sources and archeological findings.Photos could be updated though - recipe lovers like me love a good food pic.

sehr gutes und fundiertes buch..immer noch top