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The oldest known written recipes in the world are three clay cuneiform tablets held by Yale University in their Babylonian Collection. From southern Mesopotamia, the tablets are written in Akkadian and date from approximately 1750 B.C.E. Although the recipes on these tablets do not contain…

In fact, excavations at Harappa and Mohenjodaro have unearthed pottery fragments with traces of turmeric and ginger, belonging to the period between 2600 鈥?2200 BC, thus making curry (or at least the predecessor to curry) one of the oldest food items in the world.

And it isn’t always the most basic foodstuffs that have the longest pedigree. Alongside staples like beer and roast boar, some of the most ancient recipes in human history involve elaborate instructions for foods like almond milk, hangover cures and fancy cakes.

Apicius: De Re Coquinaria, the extant 4 th century BC Roman cookbook, contains a number of detailed recipes about fish as well as lamb stews. The earliest mention of ragout, a French stew, lies in the 14th-century book by chef Taillevent called Le Viandier.