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If, like us, you've spent more time at home cooking from scratch this year than ever before, you might be considering making something a bit more ambitious this Christmas! Archaeologist, culinary historian and author Dr Ursula Janssen has just released an exciting new book that might inspire your impending festive feast, called From Eden to Jerusalem - 40 Recipes from the Time of the Bible.
We have a copy of Ursula's new cookbook to give away – scroll down for the competition!
Speaking to us about putting this fantastic collection of recipes together, Ursula explained:
"After publishing my first historical cookbook, "Garum - Recipes from the Past“, I decided to use the lockdown time to produce a recipe collection that brings me closer to my academic roots: I am a Near Eastern archaeologist. Therefore, the historical recipes presented in From Eden to Jerusalem - 40 recipes from the Time of the Bible originate not in the Holy Land and the Levant only, but also in the wider Middle Eastern and Mediterranean region that forms the biblical world: from Babylonia, Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome, offering insight into the prehistoric and early historical mediterranean diet. Wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and honey are the biblical "Seven Types" that form the basis of the cuisine not only of the Holy Land but of the entire Mediterranean region. Of course, the Bible is not a cookbook, but thanks to archaeological and historical findings we know quite well what was grown, hunted, bred, cooked and eaten where and when, and the Bible itself gives some detailed hints on food culture."
